Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of. — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine, into your brain, and that's where shitty ideas come from. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate. — Seymour Chwast Copy Share Image
A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
One thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe...don't tell your mom too… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
Start listening to what you say. Are your comments and ideas negative? You aren't going become positive if you always say negative… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country,… — Curtis Bean Dall Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I had a lot of ideas about conservatives and then I got to Fox and just, I was like, 'Oh, they're not… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas. — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory. — August Wilhelm von Hofmann Copy Share Image
We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
