Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe it will… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
We are seeing a new wave of young biologists that are attacking old problems with new tools and fresh ideas, leading to… — Arvind Gupta Copy Share Image
When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
In the world of digital currencies, the social network around open source projects has become a critical test bed for ideas, products,… — Meltem Demirors Copy Share Image
There is so many good ideas that are left on the shelf of people going, 'I've kind of great idea, but I… — Mike Lindell Copy Share Image
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the… — Leslie Parrish Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have fought the fair examination of their ideas. They embrace a worldview in which a few wealthy… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
I've had the idea since high school, of writing music just for voices, just a choir. I don't know if I'll ever… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors… — Donald Pleasence Copy Share Image
I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Unlearning is gaining importance as workplaces are moving towards agile, collaborative working models. While conventional education adds to our knowledge, unlearning will… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
Europe embraces new ideas in transportation like no other region in the world and is uniquely positioned to take the next great… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image