Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neale Donald Walsch

Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to “get somewhere,” but having no idea of where they’re going.

Neale Donald Walsch

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

Nate Robinson

It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.

Nate Mendel

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Nate Parker

A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."

Nandan Nilekani

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

Nancy Sinatra

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

Morgan Spurlock

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

Mikhail Saakashvili

I admire American ideas.

Milan Kundera

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Milan Kundera

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Margaret Wertheim

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

Marcel Proust

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

Marcel Proust

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

Marcel Proust

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Marcel Proust

We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.

Joseph Beuys

The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.

Joseph Barbera

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

Joseph Barbera

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Joseph Addison

A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

Joseph Addison

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Joseph Addison

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

Lance Burton

I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

Lance Henriksen

There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

Lance Armstrong

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.

Lisa Randall

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

Lisa Randall

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Johnny Depp

When you take on the idea of playing someone like Jimmy Bulger, it's a radically different process because you're going into make-up. The only way you can do it is to come out of make-up looking like the guy. If you don't look like the guy, it's going to bug you, all day.

Johnny Depp

I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then, as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

Johnny Depp

Yeah, in every film that I've been lucky enough to do with Tim, there's always some form of torture, and the nails were Tim's idea. They were the length of the fingers and stuff, but it was okay because I had a troop of people who would help me go to the bathroom. They had to have treatment afterwards but they're okay now. That is true.

Johnny Depp

The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don't like when things make sense. I prefer if they don't.

Johnny Depp

As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

Johnny Depp

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.