Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
You need to be open and explore while heading where you want to go. You can never be too in love with… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve… — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
Just because you can make an album on a laptop computer in your back bedroom doesn't mean it's going to be any… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go:… — Siobhan Davies Copy Share Image
Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there.… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“In an intellectual battle, you do not need to convert everyone. History is made by minorities - or, more precisely, history is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity… — James Adams Copy Share Image
I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea,… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There is actually so much to learn from people who lived, so inspiring to know what they thought or what were their… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an… — Emma Restall Orr Copy Share Image
When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very… — John Backus Copy Share Image
When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was… — Shantel VanSanten Copy Share Image
The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives.… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image