Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Echelman

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Janet Evanovich

I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.

Jane Roberts

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

Jane Alexander

Part of the reason I make things realistic is, I don’t really want to have to explain my work. What I wish to communicate is done so people can make their own interpretation, and if it’s different to my idea it doesn't matter.

Euripides

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

Ethel Barrymore

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Ethan Hawke

I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.

Ethan Hawke

I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

Ethan Hawke

The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

Ethan Hawke

I don't have a lot of experiences like this where every time I thought I had a good idea it was totally wrong. I had to give in completely and just try to make the movie Alejandro Amenábar was trying to make.

Errol Morris

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

Errol Morris

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

Erin Gray

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

Cassandra Clare

One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?" “Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.

Cassandra Clare

It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

Cassandra Clare

Jace is in love with the idea of dying,” said Isabelle.

Cassandra Clare

Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea." "Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.

Carolyn Kizer

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

Ewan McGregor

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Ewan McGregor

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

Evan Williams

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

Christopher Hitchens

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

Muriel Rukeyser

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

Mohamed ElBaradei

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

Moby

The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.

Moby

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

Moby

You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

Moby

The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

Moby

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

Milton Glaser

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

Mindy Kaling

When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with.

Mindy Kaling

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.