Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Mailer

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Norman O. Brown

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

Orson Welles

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Orlando Bloom

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Orison Swett Marden

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Emile M. Cioran

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

Emile M. Cioran

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Stephane Dion

It's not an ideal situation, but the show must go on.

Chris Chambliss

It's out of our hands. But it's not the ideal situation.

Sathya Baba

Do not waste a single moment, in idling or loose living.

Joe Piscopo

It's vital to getting out the vote because the kids identify with it so much.

Lynsey Addario

I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Darin Strauss

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

Neill Blomkamp

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

Neil Young

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

R. L. Stine

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Mike Huckabee

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Nic Pizzolatto

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

Niall Horan

If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.

Neville Marriner

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Newt Gingrich

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Nhat Hanh

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

Noam Chomsky

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

Noam Chomsky

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

John Ashcroft

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

John Ashbery

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

Joe Swanberg

I do like the idea of doing something different, maybe doing something that's more like a genre film. And there are certain actors that I'd like to work with that would go along with working with a bigger budget.

Joe Strummer

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

Joe Murray

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

Carolyn Kizer

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

Moby

The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.