She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.” — Phil Dourado Copy Share Image
In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone… — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system:… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
For some reason, we have completely separated Christians who are rappers, and we have separated, I guess, regular rappers. I feel that… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions… — Chip Wilson Copy Share Image
The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of "heteroglossia"… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
I just kind of talk about what's happening in my life and it's kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I never had any ideas of this industry being a sparkly gift of a job where you go in and become a… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Liberals cannot win in the battle of ideas, so they resort to banning or suppressing ideas they don't like. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.” — Bill Holm Copy Share Image
