Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie McGuire

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

David Henry Hwang

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

David Horowitz

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

David Hilbert

I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

David Icke

I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple.

David Icke

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.

David Hume

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

David Hume

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

David Hume

When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.

David Hume

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

David Hume

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

David Duchovny

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

David Duchovny

The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.

Ben Whishaw

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

Benazir Bhutto

Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.

Barry Diller

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

Barry Diller

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

Barney Frank

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

August Krogh

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

August Strindberg

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

August Wilson

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

Audre Lorde

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Arnold Newman

Ideas visuales combinadas con tecnología e interpretación personal es igual a fotografía

Arnold Bennett

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

Antonio Tabucchi

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

William Shakespeare

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

Louis C. K.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

Louis C. K.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Kurt Vonnegut

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

Kurt Vonnegut

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

Kurt Vonnegut

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Mark Cuban

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.