Believe Quotes

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

~ Leo Durocher

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

~ H. L. Mencken

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

~ Trevor Noah

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don't mind laughing at it before you guys do.

~ Kevin Hart

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

~ Mindy Kaling

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

~ Howard Stern

But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

~ Brad Garrett

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

~ Jackie Mason

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

~ Robert Collier

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

~ Julius Caesar

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

~ Samuel Dash

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

~ Alessandro Nivola

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

~ Salman Rushdie

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

~ Meryl Streep

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

~ Blaise Pascal

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

~ Trevor Nunn

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

~ Edward P. Jones

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

~ Julian Baggini

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

~ Ryan Gosling

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

~ William Hazlitt

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

~ Michelle Phan

It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

~ Lily James

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

~ Eric Alterman

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

~ Duane Michals

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

~ Arsene Wenger

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

~ Michael Morpurgo

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

~ Diane Arbus

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

~ Mark Spitz

I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

~ Lana Del Rey

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

~ Cesare Pavese

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

~ Jake Owen

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

~ Graham Nelson

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

~ Marcel Duchamp

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

~ Barack Obama

If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.

~ Hillary Clinton

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

~ Kid Rock

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.

~ Clarence Darrow

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

~ Maria Shriver

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

~ Eliot Spitzer