Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lasse Hallstrom

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

Lasse Hallstrom

To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

Ideas that change business models and who can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

John Daly

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

Lisa Kleypas

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

Lord Acton

The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

Logan Lerman

I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.

Lynn Abbey

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Lynn Abbey

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

Lukas Foss

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Ludwig Quidde

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Ludwig Quidde

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

Lucian Freud

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

Louise Mensch

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Louise Penny

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Louis de Bernieres

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

Louis Aragon

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

Lori Greiner

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Lori Greiner

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

Loretta Young

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

Lord Byron

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

M. Night Shyamalan

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

M. F. K. Fisher

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

M. F. K. Fisher

Salad is roughage and a French idea.

Lorene Scafaria

In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.