Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Leary

We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.

Deb Caletti

Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog, or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board. They are divine counsel, based on eternal truths.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it now. Therefore, the very idea of patience may seem unpleasant and, at times, bitter. Nevertheless, without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

Diana Gabaldon

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

Dennis Hopper

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

Dennis Miller

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

Dennis Miller

For the foreseeable future, we're going to need oil products because I don't like the idea of hydrogen cars. I'm not sure I want to be cruising around a mall parking lot filled with a thousand mini-Hindenburgs.

Dennis Miller

Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.

Edward Snowden

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

Eden Phillpotts

Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we can do is give you both. . . . The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Elizabeth McCracken

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

Edwin Meese

The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

Edwin Land

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

Bill Nye

The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.

Bill Nye

I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

Bill Nye

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Bill Moyers

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

Bill Murray

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

Bess Myerson

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Benjamin Mkapa

The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

Benjamin Netanyahu

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand that.

Benjamin Walker

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

Bertrand Russell

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Bernard Ebbers

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

Cass McCombs

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

Cass Sunstein

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

Cass Sunstein

If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

Carol Vorderman

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

Carol Vorderman

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

Carlos Mencia

Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman?

Carlos Ghosn

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.