Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Williams

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

Raymond Williams

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Raymond Loewy

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

Ville Valo

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

Vince Cable

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

Russell Brand

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

Russell Brand

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.

Russell Brand

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

Russell Brand

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

Russell Brand

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

Rose McIver

I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.

Ronan Farrow

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

Ron Brown

Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.

Roger Martin

The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.

Umberto Eco

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Umberto Eco

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

Tyler Perry

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

Truman Capote

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

Trey Songz

Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

Travis Barker

I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make an album.

Rick Cook

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

Richard Davidson

We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.

Richard Darman

I have no idea what White House statement was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Reza Aslan

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

Reza Aslan

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

Rex Stout

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

Reginald Hudlin

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

Reid Hoffman

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Reid Hoffman

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

Rhonda Byrne

When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on the bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity, despite the bills around you.

Rick Warren

This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

Trevor Dunn

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.