The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child -… — Alexander Sutherland Neill Copy Share Image
The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave. — Lexa Doig Copy Share Image
Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians. — Andrew Mayne Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My dad is one of the sweetest human beings around. He's so patient with people and has so many ideas that he's… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It was weird that I was a young person who was Republican. And I wanted to get at the heart of why… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much… — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Rob Schneider and… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars"… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
As Einstein queried, 'Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I'm shaving?' Shaving is like meditation… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea. — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A seldom end up where I want to go, but almost always end up I need to be — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again. — Ruth Ann Minner Copy Share Image
A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside… — John Locke Copy Share Image
CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA! — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
