Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind. — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
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
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must say the geographically small State of Kerala has been traditionally influencing the discourse of the country with progressive ideas and… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of… — Harry Hamlin Copy Share Image
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you:… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping… — Herbie Brennan Copy Share Image
Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of.… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not facts and repetitions of truth repeated back in a pressurised situation such as in an exam hall. — Alastair Arnott Copy Share Image
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened. — A. J. McLean Copy Share Image
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the… — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around,… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly. — Aoife O'Donovan Copy Share Image
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity. — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
