Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trent Reznor

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

Veronica Roth

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

Veronica Roth

I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason -- because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you?" She shakes her head. "I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay.

Veronica Roth

I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, "I don't know, guys! Just wait." That's what I'm doing!

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Maggie Stiefvater

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

Maggie Stiefvater

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

Maggie Stiefvater

I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.

Madchen Amick

I just love the idea of witches, in general. The whole concept of witches was to keep down the feminine rise in power that was happening, at the time. They created this concept of witches, so that they could burn women at the stake and keep them in their place, and now we've turned it around to empower women. That's very ironic. If they only knew that they created a weapon for us to use against them.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

Haruki Murakami

When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.

Hans Zimmer

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

Karl Kraus

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Karl Kraus

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

Karl Kraus

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

Karl Kraus

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

Karl Kraus

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Karl Lagerfeld

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Karl Lagerfeld

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Karl Lagerfeld

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Kacey Musgraves

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.

Julius Genachowski

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

Oswald Mosley

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

Kanye West

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Kanye West

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

Kanye West

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

Kanye West

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

William Faulkner

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

Willem de Kooning

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

Willem Dafoe

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

Willem Dafoe

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

Wilbur Smith

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.