Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

Neil Gaiman

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Neil Gaiman

She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

Neil Gaiman

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.

Neil Gaiman

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Neil Gaiman

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

John Waters

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

John Waters

I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious postcards and then I asked for a receipt, and the nun said, "We don't give receipts at the Vatican." Which threw me into a rage of like, "I guess not, so you can take this money and funnel it into anti-homosexual groups!" People had to drag me out of there. It's not good for me to go into the Vatican.

John Thune

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

John Steinbeck

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Shayne Ward

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You’ve no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary)

Terence Fisher

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

Nina Jacobson

When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might be different than yours, but ultimately, they really just don't want you to mess up the thing that they love.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

Nicolas Roeg

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Nicolas Chamfort

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Nicolas Cage

You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

Nick Hanauer

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Noomi Rapace

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

Nora Roberts

I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." ----Roarke, Naked In Death

Nikolai Gogol

As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

Nikola Tesla

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

Nikola Tesla

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

Nigel Farage

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

Nigel Farage

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Nigel Farage

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Niels Bohr

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Nicole Appleton

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.

Nicolaus Copernicus

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.