Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Oscar Wilde

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

Oscar Wilde

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Oscar Wilde

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

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.

Madonna Ciccone

Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum

Madonna Ciccone

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

Madonna Ciccone

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

Madonna Ciccone

Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.

Madonna Ciccone

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

Madonna Ciccone

We live in a world where people like to pit women against each other. And this is why I love the idea of embracing other females who are doing what I'm doing. It's important for us to support each other.

Maajid Nawaz

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

Ma Huateng

Ideas are not important in China – execution is

M. Ward

I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.

M. Ward

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

Lykke Li

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

Lucretia Mott

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

Lucinda Williams

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

Lucinda Williams

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

Lorna Luft

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

Liz Phair

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

Margaret Mahy

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

Michael Jackson

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Michael Jackson

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

Michael Cunningham

We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

Michael Crichton

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

Michael Crichton

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.

Melissa Bean

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Michael Winterbottom

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.

Michael Schur

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

Michael Schur

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

Michael Scheuer

And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.