Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform… — Seth Copy Share Image
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves? — Lena Williams Copy Share Image
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger… — Alfred Lin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I like practicing, sometimes I don't. But I like the result... I hardly ever get discouraged. Maybe right when it's very… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you… — Bono Copy Share Image
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?". — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a… — William James Copy Share Image
Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light. — Johannes Itten Copy Share Image
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist. — Lionel Hampton Copy Share Image
World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created… — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea. — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together. — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it! — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
![“I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.” quote by John Brown](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f0b/john-brown-15897_deny_i-want-you-to-understand-that-i-respect_2400722.jpg)
