Famous Quotes & Sayings

The writer's pen is to ideas what the net is to butterflies.

We expect, of course, that legislators will have a wide variety of ideas of their own." ()

Stocks are running out of steam. Investors want to invest, but they're running out of ideas with prices at these levels.

I have some ideas why he didn't run very well, but I don't want to speculate.

Ron Brown

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

It wasn't a shortage of ideas. You could walk through NASA with double-sided sticky tape and wait 30 seconds and you've got 15 new ideas, or notions of where we should go,

I've had a lot of thoughts going through my mind and I've watched a lot of film the last day to see how teams have played her. We have some ideas and we're going to try a lot of different things to see what works.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

Carly Fiorina

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

Carla Gugino

It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

Candice Millard

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Camryn Manheim

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

Bryan Cranston

I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.

Bubba Sparxxx

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

Bubba Watson

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

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.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

Jared Harris

You get ideas from other people all the time.

Jarvis Cocker

Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

Janet Echelman

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

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.