Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sullivan

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Chris Cornell

I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.

Chloe Sevigny

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

Chogyam Trungpa

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

Chin-Ning Chu

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

Chester Bowles

And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?

Chen Shui-bian

Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.

Charlize Theron

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

Charles Baudelaire

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

Linda Lightfoot

When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the ideas that went into policy development. E-mail is very easy to be lost, and it is a lot more difficult to follow.

Richard Cook

We're sprouting new ideas as we go along, and the plan is more or less the same.

Frida Lyngstad

Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew perfectly well our ranges and which kind of voice they wanted on a specific song. And sometimes, I envied the choice of Agnetha, I must admit.

Anne Sullivan

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

Mayor Shaw

What this is for is (to express) what you want to see the town of Wesson like in the next five years, 10 years.... But we can't get your ideas unless you're there.

Peter Gabriel

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They've been totally preoccupied with the business side of it, but not so much with how the new formats - or the freedom of formats - could change the nature of what exactly is created.

Jason Woliner

We would write scripts, like for 'Shutterbugs.' Then when we shot it, everyone just came up with new stuff. We've definitely learned how to do it better as we've gotten along. So basically, that's how it went. We just go in with ideas and try to figure out funny stuff while we're there.

Alice Rivlin

What he's likely to do is to continue writing and speaking, as he has done to some extent at the Fed, and pursuing his interests in economics, which are very intense, ... He loves working with data and thinking of new ideas about the economy. I suspect we will get some of that, and in some ways, he'll be a little bit freer to speak.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

Josie Bissett

When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

Alex Coletti

We're going to see these mountains and it's going to be gorgeous. You can get more creative visually because you want to do it justice.

Kathryn Hahn

And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way.

Jan Chovanec

When we anticipate guests? needs, when we are flexible, when we are creative and we create a sense of privacy, all those five-star ratings will come.

Brian Graden

When we first uncovered the creative genius of the underground skateboard mentality of 'Jackass,' we knew it would resonate with our young adult audience,

Aaron McGruder

We wrote the script, we did a six-minute presentation, and then it died. Fox wanted a sitcom with an 'A story' and a 'B story,' and there were just very rigid creative rules that work on some shows and don't work on others.

Tom O'Neill

What Hollywood has done is push the responsibility for funding movies onto the creative people who make them.

Anne Sweeney

What hasn't he done for prime time is more the question. I think he has brought a strong new creative spirit and the wonderful ability to take chances back to network prime-time television.