Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanne Moreau

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

Jeanne Moreau

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Jean Dubuffet

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

Jean Monnet

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

Jean-Marie Messier

I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

Gloria Feldt

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

Gloria Allred

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Ian MacKaye

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that's it's more important.

Ian MacKaye

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.

Ian Mcewan

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution

Ian Mcewan

Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.

Ian Frazier

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Ian Frazier

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

Ian Hamilton Finlay

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Ian Hacking

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

Hugh Mackay

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Hugh Jackman

Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.

Hugh Jackman

Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I've had in life happened during or after meditating. Everything becomes clear and the truth starts coming out.

Hugh Jackman

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.

Eddie Jordan

He's OK. I have different ideas for that next year, so we'll see. Right now that's all I want to say on that.

Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism...

Hunter S. Thompson

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Hunter S. Thompson

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

Hulk Hogan

I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.

Humphrey Bogart

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Howard Shore

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.