Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Lermontov

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

Maria Bello

I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinctual, in the moment, what the other actors do, working off them and letting the story unfold, as opposed to having an idea of what the story should be.

Martin Kippenberger

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

Mark Udall

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

Mark Knopfler

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Mark Hoppus

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

Mark Hoppus

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Mark Batterson

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability...

Mikhail Gorbachev

Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples.

Jack Prelutsky

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Ivan Turgenev

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.

Isaiah Berlin

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Isaiah Berlin

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Irvin D. Yalom

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Ina May Gaskin

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

Gloria Steinem

I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.

Gloria Steinem

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

Gloria Steinem

If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.

Gloria Steinem

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Gloria Steinem

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

Gloria Steinem

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Gloria Steinem

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

Giorgio Armani

There is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did.

Harry S Truman

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

J. Paul Getty

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

J. Michael Straczynski

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

J. Michael Straczynski

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

J. M. Coetzee

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

J. M. Coetzee

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

J. K. Rowling

Are you trying to weasel out of showing us any of this stuff?" said Zacharias Smith. "Here's an idea," said Ron loudly, "why don't you shut your mouth?" "Well, we've all turned up to learn from him, and now he's telling us he can't really do any of it," he said. "That's not what he said," said Fred Weasley. "Would you like us to clean out your ears for you?" inquired George, pulling a long and lethal-looking metal instrument from inside one of the Zonko's bags. "Or any part of your body, really, we're not fussy where we stick this," said Fred.