Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Casnocha

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Ben Affleck

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

Barbara Walters

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

Barbara Tuchman

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

Arthur Christiansen

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

Arthur Brisbane

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.

Arthur C. Clarke

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Arthur C. Clarke

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

Arthur C. Clarke

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

Anton Chekhov

One must speak about serious things seriously.

Anton Chekhov

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

Anton Chekhov

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

Belinda Carlisle

I just liked the idea of being engaged.

Bella Heathcote

I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.

bell hooks

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

bell hooks

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own lightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

Ari Graynor

There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

Ariel Pink

It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

Anthony Trollope

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

Anthony Trollope

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

Diana Vreeland

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.

Diana Vreeland

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

Diana Vreeland

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

Diane Ackerman

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Diane Ackerman

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

Diane Ackerman

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

Desiderius Erasmus

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation...

Demi Moore

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

Demi Moore

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

Demetri Martin

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.