Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lithgow

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

John Legend

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

John Legend

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

John Lennon

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

John Baldessari

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

John Banville

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

Jodie Foster

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Jim Lehrer

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Joanna Newsom

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

Joanna Newsom

I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.

Jim Rohn

If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause

Jim Rohn

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

Jim Rohn

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

Jim Rohn

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

Jim Rohn

Ideas are information taking shape.

George Matthew Adams

There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can't destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.

George Lucas

I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money.

George Lucas

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

George Lucas

I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work.

George Lucas

I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.

Andrew Stanton

A lot of studios talk about a 12-to-1 ratio -- they come in with 12 ideas and one of them makes it,

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

This is a mechanism for the people of the state of Idaho to show their voice and flex their muscle and get these wolves out of here.

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

Aaron Boone

I took it as a frustrated, idiotic comment, especially considering the slop he was throwing up there. I mean, who is Josh Towers?

DJ Qualls

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

Dave Franco

On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

Dave Barry

Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.

Dave Barry

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Alan Moore

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Hovhaness

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.