Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Scott Pelley

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

Satyajit Ray

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

Scarlett Thomas

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

Lily King

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

Lenny Kravitz

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

Lenny Kravitz

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

Lenny Kravitz

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

Laurie Helgoe

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

Laurie Helgoe

When an introvert cares about someone, she also wants contact, not so much to keep up with the events of the other person's life, but to keep up with what's inside: the evolution of ideas, values, thoughts, and feelings.

Laurie Anderson

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Laura Anne Gilman

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

L. Ron Hubbard

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.

Thom Yorke

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

Thom Yorke

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.

Thom Yorke

I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out

Thom Yorke

Don't get any big ideas, They're not gonna happen.

Thom Browne

An idea that is confident always looks masculine.

Thierry Henry

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

Theophilus London

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

Therese of Lisieux

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

Leo Burnett

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

Leo Strauss

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

Leo Strauss

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

Lawrence Hargrave

Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.

Lawrence Summers

The idea that we should be open to all ideas, is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

Lawrence Summers

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

Lawrence Lessig

Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

Lawrence Lessig

I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

Lawrence Lessig

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

Lawrence Lessig

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.

Lawrence Lessig

There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.