Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stuart Mill

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

John Ralston Saul

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

John Scott

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

Namie Amuro

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Peter Drucker

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Maria Sharapova

I never really had an idol.

Nicolas Cage

You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

Nick Hanauer

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Nicole Kidman

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

N. T. Wright

You become like what you worship

Mike Mills

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Marilyn Manson

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

Michael Caine

I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

Mason Cooley

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

Michael Graves

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michelle Williams

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

Martha McSally

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

Mark Rothko

The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

Patricia McConnell

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

Madonna Ciccone

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

Lorna Luft

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Abdullah Ocalan

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

Alexis Ohanian

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

Alexis de Tocqueville

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Paul Begala

I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence.

William Johnson

If they are not in school and they are supposed to be in school you can identify the ones that are supposed to be in school and the ones not supposed to be in school.

If we can see (the damage), we can have some ideas about it for when we get home.

Ben Horowitz

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

Jerry Rice

Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

Jean M. Auel

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?