Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Mann

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Merton

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

Thomas Carlyle

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Tony Judt

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

Tony Judt

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Tony Kushner

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

Tommy Lee Jones

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Tom Wujec

Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

Steven Spielberg

Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

Steven Johnson

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

Steven Johnson

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

Steven Johnson

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

Steven Johnson

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Steven Johnson

Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.

Steven Johnson

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Steven Biko

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die

Steven Erikson

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Steve McQueen

There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.

Steve Martin

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

Steve Martin

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

Steve Martin

…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…

Stephen Hawking

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Stephen Hawking

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Stephen King

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

Ron Paul

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

Ron Paul

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

Sally Potter

As the director, you have to hold in your head the widest possible vision. Not just the idea and the story, but the conceptual content. But at the same time, you have to consider the tiniest, tiniest detail.

Ruth Wilson

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

Ruth Wilson

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.

Rory Stewart

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

Rosa Parks

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A great idea is not enough.