Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winona Ryder

My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

Winston Churchill

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

Winston Churchill

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

William Matthews

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

William J. Brennan

All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].

Virginia Woolf

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

Vincente Minnelli

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.

Vincent D'Onofrio

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

Woody Harrelson

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

Woody Allen

The best an idea gets is when its in your head.

Woody Allen

I myself don't like to speak to the actors at all. I like to hire great people and let them do their thing. I don't like to speak to them. I don't like to have lunch with them. I don't like to socialize with them. I don't like to hear their ideas.

Woody Allen

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.

Woody Allen

I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.

Woody Allen

I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.

Woody Allen

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

Woody Allen

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

Woody Allen

I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.

William Weld

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

William Wordsworth

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

William Scranton

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

William Shatner

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

William Shatner

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

William Shatner

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

William J. Clinton

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

William J. Clinton

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service...

William J. Clinton

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

William James

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

William James

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

William James

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William Gilbert

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

William Gibson

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

Will Cuppy

I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.