Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Williams

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

Martha McSally

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

Mark Rothko

The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

Patricia McConnell

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

Madonna Ciccone

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

Abdullah Ocalan

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

Alexis Ohanian

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

Alexis de Tocqueville

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Paul Begala

I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence.

If we can see (the damage), we can have some ideas about it for when we get home.

Jean M. Auel

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Erin Wasson

I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.

Ezra Pound

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Francis Parker Yockey

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Chris Van Allsburg

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Chris Ware

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

Chris Ofili

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

Chris Pratt

I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

Chris Lilley

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

Chris Hughes

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

George W. Bush

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

George Soros

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

George Soros

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

George Orwell

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

Jim Caviezel

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

Jeri Ryan

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

Jeff Bridges

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

Hanoi Hannah

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

Isadora Duncan

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.