Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maureen Johnson

I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

Matthew Macfadyen

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

Matthew Lewis

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.

Matt Mickiewicz

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

Matt Mullenweg

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

Matt Mullenweg

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Maya Rudolph

And in improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as 'Yes And'. The term yes and: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it.

Maya Lin

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Maya Angelou

A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.

Maya Angelou

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Maya Angelou

There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

Matthew Arnold

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

Matthew Arnold

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Marianne Williamson

We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.

Mario Andretti

I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.

Marilyn Manson

I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.

Marilyn Manson

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

Mads Mikkelsen

I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

Michael Haneke

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

Michael Buckley

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

Michael Cera

Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.

Michael Caine

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

Mason Cooley

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

Mason Cooley

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

Mason Cooley

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Mason Cooley

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Mason Cooley

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Mason Cooley

The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

Mason Cooley

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Mason Cooley

Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

Mary Kay Ash

If you have an idea and I have an idea - then we EACH have JUST ONE idea...but if you share your idea with me and I do the same...we EACH have TWO ideas!