Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Solondz

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Tobias Smollett

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

Sol LeWitt

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

Sol LeWitt

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Slavoj Zizek

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

Slavoj Zizek

In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being.

Siouxsie Sioux

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Siobhan Davies

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

Siobhan Davies

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

Sinclair Lewis

You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.

Rajneesh

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

Rajneesh

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

Rajneesh

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

Rajneesh

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

Snoop Dogg

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

Sigmar Gabriel

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

Michael Shermer

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

Michael Shermer

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

Michael Scott

Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t.

Michael Scott

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

Michael Scott

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

Michael Moore

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

Michael Moore

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

Michael Moore

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

Michael Moore

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

Norah O'Donnell

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Norbert Wiener

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent

Norbert Wiener

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Nobuo Uematsu

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

Neil Kinnock

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.