Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Haynes

Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.

Tommy Tune

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

Tommy Smothers

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Tommy Shaw

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds

Steve Allen

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

Stephen Dunn

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

Stephen Daldry

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

Stephen Hawking

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Stephen Hawking

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

Stephen Hawking

When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.

Stephen Hawking

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

Stellan Skarsgard

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

Stendhal

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

Stanislaw Lem

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

Spike Jonze

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Sigmund Freud

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Sigmund Freud

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

Sigmund Freud

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

Sigmund Freud

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Shirley MacLaine

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

Shirley MacLaine

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.

Shirley MacLaine

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

Shepard Fairey

If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

Sergio Aragones

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Sergey Brin

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

Scotty McCreery

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

Scott Westerfeld

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

Scott Westerfeld

One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

Steven Price

I'm not very good at sounding like other people. When you're going through your 20's and trying to get a break and that kind of thing, and you're trying to do something that sounds like film music, your idea of what it would be, it never really worked out for me and it's only really when I learned to trust the fact that I could only really sound like me.

Steven Moffat

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

Steven Pressfield

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Steven Brust

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

Steven Pinker

Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.