Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roald Dahl

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Rob Bell

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

Richard Powers

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Richard Pryor

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

Richard Rodriguez

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

Richard Carmona

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

Tullian Tchividjian

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

Trevor Nunn

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

Trey Parker

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Trey Parker

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Tracy Kidder

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

Vera Wang

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Vanessa Friedman

The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.

Vanessa Hudgens

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.

Vance Havner

Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.

Vance Havner

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Ugo Betti

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Ulrich Beck

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

Uma Thurman

If you're not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.

Richard Dawkins

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

Richard Dawkins

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!

Robin Williams

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

Robin Williams

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

Robin Williams

When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.

Robin Williams

Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.

Robin Williams

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

Robin Chase

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

Robin Ince

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

Robin Ince

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Robert Winston

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

Robert Motherwell

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

Robert Stromberg

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

Robert Townsend

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.