Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Depp

I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.

John Sweeney

Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.

John Sununu

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

John Stuart Mill

It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius or courage, becomes to a subsequent age, so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty is to imagine how such an idea could ever have appeared credible.

John Stuart Mill

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

John Stuart Mill

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

John Stuart Mill

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

John Stuart Mill

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

John Stuart Mill

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

John Stuart Mill

... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.

John Sheridan

And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

John Ralston Saul

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

James Joseph Sylvester

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

James Joseph Sylvester

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

James Joseph Sylvester

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

James Hutton

Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by which alone it had existence; and as the natural course of time, which to us seems infinite, cannot be bounded by any operation that may have an end, the progress of things upon this globe, that is, the course of nature, cannot be limited by time, which must proceed in a continual succession.

James Howard Kunstler

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

James Scott

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.

James Gunn

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

James Gunn

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

Laurence Sterne

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor.

Larry Flynt

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.

Kyan Douglas

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

Kyle MacLachlan

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

Liana Liberato

I like the idea of having a little bit of a mystery about me.

Friedrich Engels

Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

Harvey Fierstein

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Harvey Mackay

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.

Harvey Mackay

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Genevieve Gorder

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.