Famous Quotes & Sayings

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Bob Dylan

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Brit Marling

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Dale Carnegie

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Dale Carnegie

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

Dale Carnegie

No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.

Andrea Thompson

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me.

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Elaine Rubin

Right now, UPS is sort of the default choice. If someone comes up with the better mousetrap, then suddenly they won't be so satisfied with UPS. If USPS starts acting like an innovative business, then a lot of people would like to work with them. The Airborne thing also makes a lot of sense.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

Kaley Cuoco

Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Tim Robbins

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Tia Carrere

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

Stephenie Meyer

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Taylor Swift

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Soren Kierkegaard

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Tammy Wynette

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Tanith Lee

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

Sylvia Plath

I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

Rollo May

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Rumi

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Rumi

Look at me as many times as you wish, but you won’t get to know me! Since you have last seen me, I’ve changed a hundred times!

Stella McCartney

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.