We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied… — Vera John-Steiner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Opportunities arrive and you think, 'Wow, that seems like a really good idea.' You take risks. If they don't work out, you… — Diana Taylor Copy Share Image
Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to… — Dustin Moskovitz Copy Share Image
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my… — Anohni Copy Share Image
When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, 'The Franchise,' I remember the NFL was just starting… — Shane Douglas Copy Share Image
Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs. Or if the guy doesn't say… — Malin Akerman Copy Share Image
“However, I don’t understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity.… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I hate this idea that you have to love somebody because they are your family. Nobody can tell me what I'm supposed… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill. — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got… — Matt Holliday Copy Share Image
I didn't have any idea that Gwen Stefani would evolve into this symbol of womanhood in America, but to me, that's not… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, 'Who's idea was it to… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It… — Simon Travaglia Copy Share Image
'Desperate Housewives' worked out beautifully. I went out for that before it began airing, and no one had any idea it was… — Sam Lloyd Copy Share Image
The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
In some ways, the idea of settling down is alien to me. I'm more familiar with having a peripatetic existence, flitting here… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations. — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
