Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pericles

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Pauline Kael

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

Paul Valery

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Paul Valery

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Paul Volcker

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

Paul Watzlawick

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

Paul Wolfowitz

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.

Paul Wellstone

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Mel Brooks

Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

Mary Oliver

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Mary Oliver

A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.

Mary Oliver

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

Mary Oliver

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

Martine McCutcheon

Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are.

Martin Cruz Smith

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

Martin Amis

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Pope John Paul II

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

James Laughlin

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

Joe Rogan

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

Joe Rogan

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

Joe Rogan

Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

Joe Grant

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea.

Joe Flanigan

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

Joe Girardi

You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he has to deal with and the expectations he has to deal with, the personalities he has to deal with. It's a lot.

Jimi Hendrix

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

Jim James

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

Jimi Hendrix

Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

Emma Goldman

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

Emma Goldman

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.

Emma Goldman

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

Emma Watson

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

Emma Watson

The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea - and please excuse me - that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I've done that - very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!