Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities. — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living. — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on. — Niall Horan Copy Share Image
I always had an idea for what I wanted to do in the future and throughout my career. This wasn't, like, me… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
“You have to realize just because things don't have tangible reality, that doesn't mean they don't exist. Ideas are just as real… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Normally, for a musical, the first step with my collaborators is to figure out the story and the outline and really be… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
Ads which ran 30-50 years ago, even a hundred years ago, are often better than those you see today. You’ll get great… — Ted Nicholas Copy Share Image
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What's when you rap and don't appreciate the art? What's when you sell out just to get a start? What's when you… — Lord Finesse Copy Share Image
The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne. — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Too many keep-fit ideas are designed for those who are already fit, and they're just no fun. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image