Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Zappa

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

Jeff Lindsay

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

Jeanette Winterson

I have no idea what happens next

Jim Caviezel

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

Jim Cooper

Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.

Jim Carrey

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Jessie J

I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.

Jerry Stiller

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Jerry Uelsmann

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

Jerry Uelsmann

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

Jerry Springer

Vegetarianism is a good idea.

Jeri Ryan

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

Jeremy Stoppelman

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

Jen Kirkman

I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and make more people. What ever happened to marrying for love— or to get on your partner’s health insurance policy, or for presents? No one was going to buy two people in their thirties a four-slice toaster if we just continued to live in sin.

Jeb Bush

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

George Eliot

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

George Eliot

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

George Eliot

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Franz Liszt

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Frank Capra

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

Frank Carson

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable....

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

Chris Van Allsburg

I have lots of ideas. The problem for me has always been which one to do.

Chris Van Allsburg

I take my ideas from my experiences.

Chris Van Allsburg

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Chris Ware

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

Chris Ofili

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.