This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of… — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress.… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make more of a lifestyle record instead of anything else. I wasn't trying to do anything mainstream or… — Young De Copy Share Image
“I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it.… — Isabel Wolff Copy Share Image
Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you… — Tom Kettle Copy Share Image
The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way… — Atle Selberg Copy Share Image
Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done.… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
My original idea- and I still want to do it -for Pinko Records, would be to create a platform for other artists… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory… — Richard D. Zanuck Copy Share Image
It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what… — Randy Johnson Copy Share Image
I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing,… — David F. Emery Copy Share Image
In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Remember: real politics isn't about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around… — Matt Kindt Copy Share Image
In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image