Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Roth

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Peyton Manning

Whatever happens, happens. I can't give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he'll get a feel for where I am and I’ll get a sense of what direction he wants to go. Right now, I have no idea.

Pharrell Williams

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

Peter Diamandis

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

Peter De Vries

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

Peter Drucker

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Peter Drucker

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

Peter Drucker

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Peter Drucker

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Peter Drucker

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

Penn Jillette

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

Penn Jillette

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Paulo Coelho

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

Paulo Coelho

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Paulo Coelho

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

Paulo Coelho

The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

Paulo Coelho

We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.

Paulo Coelho

By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.

Martin Scorsese

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Marisol Nichols

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

Marissa Mayer

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'

Marjane Satrapi

I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what. Because Vincent would say something, and I would add something, and at the end you have this film, yet no clear idea of who did what.

Marie Antoinette

I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.

Maria Sharapova

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

Meghan O'Rourke

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Shayne Ward

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

Nicolas Cage

You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

Nick Hanauer

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Nicole Kidman

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

Mike Mills

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Marianne Williamson

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

Mason Cooley

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.