We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea… — John Welch Copy Share Image
The vision behind our idea is a world where people don't carry hazardous chemicals in their bodies, the environment is free of… — Jeffrey Hollender Copy Share Image
Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If I were retired I wouldn't know what to do because I'd have to think, well, now what is it I want… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When You allow yourself to experience new ideas and thoughts and challenge the beliefs you currently have, you are definitely heading towards… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I… — Mike Duke Copy Share Image
I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn't executed well.… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that… — Justin Zackham Copy Share Image
A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what… — Kevin Rose Copy Share Image
Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image