Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

Brendan Fraser

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some...

Jane Campion

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

James Theodore Bent

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

Charles Kettering

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Anton Chekhov

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Craig Ferguson

Ocean's 13 is all about cool people having a good time, and who doesn't want to see that? Well you, apparantly, 'cause you're watching me.

Bob Dylan

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

Blaise Pascal

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane D. Hull

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

Cameron Russell

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

Brian Jacques

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Cesar Milstein

I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."

Catherine Ponder

It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.

Kate Micucci

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is stronger than knowledge.