Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Pinker

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Sue Grafton

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Sue Monk Kidd

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

Sue Monk Kidd

Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

Sue Monk Kidd

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?

Steven Weinberg

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was hidden from us in everyday life. The physicist's task is to find this deeper symmetry.

Steven Weinberg

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

Steven Weinberg

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

Steven Tyler

I don't buy into the idea that you're not supposed to rock & roll after a certain date. Maybe I should be in Bellevue, but I'm just having a good time.

Steven Tyler

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

Steven Tyler

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

Ricky Van Veen

Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.

Ridley Scott

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

Richard Serra

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Richard Stallman

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

Richard Stallman

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

Richard Stallman

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Richard Stallman

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

Richard Attenborough

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

Michael Ignatieff

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

Michael Ignatieff

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come,

Michael Eisner

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

Michael Eisner

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

Michael Eisner

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

Ravi Zacharias

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Ray Bradbury

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

Ray Bradbury

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Randy Newman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

Ralph Bunche

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Ralph Bakshi

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

Rajneesh

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

Rajneesh

Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.

Raf Simons

I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.