Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hilton

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

James Hillman

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

James Hillman

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

James Hillman

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

James Earl Jones

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

Joseph Joubert

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

Joseph Joubert

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.

Joseph Joubert

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

Joseph Joubert

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

Joseph Smith, Jr.

It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and “the righteous shall hardly escape.” …So that is an unhallowed principle to say that such and such have transgressed because they have been preyed upon by disease or death, for all flesh is subject to death; and the Savior has said, “judge not, lest ye be judged.

Kristin Hersh

I don't like the idea of famous people.

Klaus Schulze

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

Murray Walker

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

Milton Avery

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Milton Friedman

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

Mike Shinoda

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

Mike Birbiglia

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

Nate Silver

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

Nate Silver

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

Nathan Fillion

When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.

Nancy Mitford

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

Ken Thompson

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

Kemmons Wilson

Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.

Keira Knightley

[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.

Kathryn Minshew

Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

Katherine Waterston

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Katherine Jenkins

I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.

Katherine Mansfield

Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.

Kate DiCamillo

There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.

Karen Walker

The ideas can come from anywhere; the energy just comes from loving what I do.

Julia Stiles

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

Julian Barbour

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

Keith Olbermann

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.