The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
See, I dont know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“If the idea doesn’t drive us crazy and make us restless, it basically belongs to that cluster of ideas that keeps hovering… — Dr Prem Jagyasi Copy Share Image
We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
“We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unless you've a lot of passion about this, you're not gonna survive. You're gonna give it up. So you've got to have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
We ought to be able to talk about ideas, we ought to be able to debate ideas because that's how you get… — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid… — Hafez Copy Share Image
Being able to chuck ideas around and bounce ideas off each other with anyone I'm working with is just something I love… — Benee Copy Share Image
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not… — William Ames Copy Share Image
It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all.… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image