Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance… — Ludivine Sagnier Copy Share Image
Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States.… — John Thain Copy Share Image
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
There's something about seeing a movie that you like, and being able to see the scenes that didn't make it, just as… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
For years my only purpose was to do documentary photos for magazines, without any idea that they were part of a larger… — Hiroshi Hamaya Copy Share Image
It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
In fact, in some countries there are actually voting drives conducted in prison! But here in the U.S., we seem to take… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Mission District in San Francisco, which was largely Hispanic at the time. I was raised in a… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about… — Andrew Levitas Copy Share Image
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces,… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
