Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Irwin M. Jacobs

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

Illeana Douglas

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

Ozzie Guillen

I said I liked Chavez, but with some ideology and ideas I don't agree, ... It doesn't matter to me what they think. Why not say that I like the president?

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Carrie Fisher

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

Bill Burr

Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.

Jayma Mays

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

Jay Leno

Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.

Candice Millard

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Bubba Sparxxx

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

James Hilton

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

James Hillman

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Jane Alexander

Part of the reason I make things realistic is, I don’t really want to have to explain my work. What I wish to communicate is done so people can make their own interpretation, and if it’s different to my idea it doesn't matter.

Euripides

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

Ethan Hawke

I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

Christian Louboutin

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

Gilbert Gottfried

I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, 'Who's idea was it to go see him? And is it too late to ask for my money back?'

Harry Hamlin

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Gordon Bell

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

Greil Marcus

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.