Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucinda Williams

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

Liz Phair

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

Margaret Mahy

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

Michael Jackson

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Michael Jackson

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

Michael Cunningham

We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

Michael Crichton

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

Michael Crichton

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.

Michael Winterbottom

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.

Michael Schur

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

Michael Schur

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

Michael Scheuer

And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.

Michael Rosenbaum

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

Michael Nesmith

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Michael Nesmith

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Markus Zusak

A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

Markus Zusak

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

Mark Twain

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Marianne Williamson

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.

Marianne Williamson

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

Maria Bello

I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinctual, in the moment, what the other actors do, working off them and letting the story unfold, as opposed to having an idea of what the story should be.

Martin Kippenberger

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

Mark V. Hurd

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Mark Udall

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

Mark Knopfler

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Mark Hoppus

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

Mark Hoppus

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Mark Batterson

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability...

Mikhail Gorbachev

Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples.