Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soren Kierkegaard

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Stephenie Meyer

So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

Stephen Colbert

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.

Stephen Colbert

Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.

Stella Adler

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Stella Adler

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Stefan Zweig

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

Soulja Boy

Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give 'em something to do.

Sparky Anderson

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Sophie Kinsella

Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.

Tim Salmon

I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.

Tim Walker

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become attached to something that doesn't exist. Enlightenment isn't a thing you get.

Tim Bray

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

Tim Berners-Lee

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Tim Berners-Lee

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

Thomas Love Peacock

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Thomas Frank

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

Thomas Bangalter

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

Thom Mayne

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

Thom Mayne

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Thom Mayne

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

Thom Mayne

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Woody Allen

The best an idea gets is when its in your head.

Woody Allen

I myself don't like to speak to the actors at all. I like to hire great people and let them do their thing. I don't like to speak to them. I don't like to have lunch with them. I don't like to socialize with them. I don't like to hear their ideas.

Woody Allen

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.

Woody Allen

I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.

Woody Allen

I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.

Woody Allen

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

Woody Allen

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.