Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ty Pennington

That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true.

Twyla Tharp

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

Twyla Tharp

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Twyla Tharp

I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

Twyla Tharp

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

Trofim Lysenko

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

Walt Disney

We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

Walt Disney

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

Walt Disney

Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland

Vissarion Belinsky

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

Vinod Khosla

Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

Vinton Cerf

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

Vinton Cerf

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

Walt Whitman

I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

Saul Bellow

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

Saul Alinsky

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

Saul Bellow

The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

Sarah Dessen

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

Sarah Dessen

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

Sarah Dessen

Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.

Sandra Bullock

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

Rory Bremner

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Rohit Sharma

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

Roger Ebert

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

Rod McKuen

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

Rod Serling

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

Rod Serling

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Robin McKinley

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

Robert Stromberg

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

Robert Townsend

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

Robert Townsend

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Robert Smithson

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head