I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being… — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever actually invented by the mind. The mind puts things together and constructs false "ideas” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence;… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (Pause.) “What are you thinking about?” Me: “You.” Augustus: “What about… — John Green Copy Share Image
Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before. — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Thus ideas like subliminal advertising today rarely works and or even exists. — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image