Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Davies

In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.

Paul Davies

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Paul Davies

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Patrick Collison

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that,

Patrick Dixon

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

Patrick Carney

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

Paola Antonelli

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

Paolo Sorrentino

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

Pankaj Mishra

I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are prey to false ideologies and national delusions.

Pankaj Mishra

In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

Peter Gay

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

Peter Greenaway

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

Peter Greenaway

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Perry Farrell

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

Pericles

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Pauline Kael

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

Paul Valery

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Paul Valery

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Joyce Meyer

Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

Justin Sane

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

Judith Rodin

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

George Lucas

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ...

George MacDonald

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

George MacDonald

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

George Lois

Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

George Lois

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Emily Ratajkowski

For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.

Elliott Erwitt

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

Elliott Abrams

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

Ellie Goulding

I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.

Ellie Goulding

I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

Elizabeth Hand

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

Elizabeth Gaskell

...yet, even before he left the room, - and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power, repugnant to her whole previous life.She crept away, and hid from his idea. But it was of no use