Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gottfried Leibniz

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.

Jim DeMint

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Fred Hoyle

The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.

John Steinbeck

Got a lot of sinful ideas. But they seem kinda sensible.

J. K. Rowling

He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.

Hunter S. Thompson

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Kevin Spacey

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

We have a lot of opportunities and ideas on how we can reduce that very considerably,