Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Lacy

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

Sarah Kay

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

Samuel Johnson

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

Samuel Johnson

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

Robert Greene

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Robert Atkins

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

Robert Barry

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

Robert Barry

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.

Robert Barry

How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.

Robert Anton Wilson

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Rob Morrow

I love the idea of rectitude.

Rob Portman

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

Ricki Lake

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

Ricky Jay

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

Richard Linklater

It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.

Richard Linklater

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

Richard Linklater

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

Rebecca Eaton

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

Richard Rorty

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Richard Florida

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

Richard Gere

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

Richard Gere

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Rich Lowry

Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

Robert Doisneau

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn't that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.

Robert Doisneau

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

Robert Dallek

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

Robert Crumb

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

Robert De Niro

I got some bad ideas in my head.

Roald Dahl

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Roald Dahl

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Rob Bell

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

Richard Powers

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.