Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

William Scranton

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

William Shatner

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

William Shatner

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

William Shatner

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

William J. Clinton

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

William J. Clinton

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service...

William J. Clinton

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

William James

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

William James

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

William James

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William Gilbert

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

William Gibson

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

Will Cuppy

I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

Will Ferrell

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.

Sarah Silverman

I do love the idea of ritual.

Sarah Bernhardt

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Sara Cox

I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

William Faulkner

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

Rebecca Eaton

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

Richard Rorty

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Richard Florida

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

Richard Gere

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

Richard Gere

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Rich Lowry

Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

Robert Doisneau

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn't that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.

Robert Doisneau

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

Robert Dallek

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

Robert Crumb

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

Robert De Niro

I got some bad ideas in my head.

Roald Dahl

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.