Famous Quotes & Sayings

Levon Helm

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

Lewis Carroll

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

Lewis Carroll

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

Joseph Campbell

If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

Joseph Campbell

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

Joseph Campbell

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

Karl Pilkington

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.

Karl Popper

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

Karl Popper

It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

Karl Popper

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

Karl Popper

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

Juliette Lewis

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

Juliette Binoche

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

Juliette Binoche

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

Joseph Needham

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

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.

Oswald Mosley

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

Jonathan Ive

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

Jonathan Haidt

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

Jonathan Demme

I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

Jonathan Coe

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Jonathan Edwards

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

Jonathan Alter

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

Jonathan Alter

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

Jonah Goldberg

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Jonah Goldberg

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.

Katherine Dunn

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

Joe Rogan

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.