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
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
I don't know what I'm doing. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm shopping around. — Doug Sweetland Copy Share Image
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied… — Vera John-Steiner Copy Share Image
Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones. — Chris Brogan Copy Share Image
If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the… — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I remember having to hit a mark and having no idea how to do it, real childlike stuff, because Carnegie Mellon didn't… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, you accept, by definition, the existence and triumph of opposing ideas. The people who believe deeply in… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by… — Marlene Caroselli Copy Share Image
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
First of all, I really appreciate what I've got and I know that we're all sort of on borrowed time. I think… — Dr. Luke Copy Share Image
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
I think it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that… — C. Terry Warner Copy Share Image
What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist. — Emmanuelle Chriqui Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last. — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what… — John Maus Copy Share Image
Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea. — Luke Roberts Copy Share Image
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“The Internet is a place where ideas compete, and bad ideas in particular get shared.” — George Takei Copy Share Image
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
If you're struggling for gift ideas, my advice is to give experiences rather than things. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
