Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rubenstein

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

David Rabe

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

Carl Sagan

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

Carl Sagan

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

C. Wright Mills

What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal milieux we are required to look beyond them. And the number and variety of such structural changes increase as the institutions within which we live become more embracing and more intricately connected with one another. To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux. To be able to do that is to possess the sociological imagination

Bryn Terfel

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Bryan Singer

You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Bryan Ferry

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Bryan Adams

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Bryan Adams

I like the idea of helping people help people.

Cesar Pelli

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

Cesare Pavese

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

Catherine Fisher

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

Catherine Hardwicke

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

Camilo Jose Cela

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Camille Pissarro

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

We have no illusions about it. The status quo won't hold. We have to go in with new, interesting ideas that are cost-effective.

Agnes Obel

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

Agnes Martin

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Agnes Martin

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Aasif Mandvi

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

Aaron Sorkin

If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.

Alan Turing

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Alan Kay

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Charlotte Bronte

I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.

Charles de Gaulle

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Charles de Lint

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

Charles Dickens

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Soule

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Stross

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.