Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

Francis Crick

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

Francis Crick

Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

Francis Crick

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.

Francis Ford Coppola

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

Francis Ford Coppola

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

Francis Ford Coppola

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Francis Ford Coppola

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Francis Chan

The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

Francine Prose

But if I were asked to pick one constant, one quality that seems dependable, immutable, endlessly available, I'd say that it was intensity. For nothing in Sicily seems withheld, done half way, restrained or suppressed. There's nothing to correspond to say, the ironic, the cerebral remove at which a Frenchman might consider an idea or a question, or the Scandinavian distrust of the sloppy, emotive response.

Francis Bacon

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

Frances O'Grady

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

So much of being a success is perseverance as much as ideas,

I've had a lot of thoughts going through my mind and I've watched a lot of film the last day to see how teams have played her. We have some ideas and we're going to try a lot of different things to see what works.

Ernest Newman

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

Erma Bombeck

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

Erma Bombeck

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Erin Wasson

I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.

Florence Welch

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

Florence Welch

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

FKA twigs

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

Flannery O'Connor

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

Fiona Gubelmann

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

Fidel Castro

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

Fidel Castro

Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

Fidel Castro

I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.

Fidel Castro

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

Fidel Castro

Ideas do not need weapons.

Fidel Castro

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

Fiona Apple

I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.

Henry Mayhew

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

Henry Moore

There is a right physical size for every idea.

Henry Moore

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.