I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but… — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive… — Anne Heywood Copy Share Image
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind.… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm a very dull passenger. I don't speak. I don't have sex. No alcohol. I don't do drugs. The thing that I… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth,… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by… — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
There is no other art medium like tattooing in the world. When the customer comes in with a basic idea, it is… — William Webb Copy Share Image
Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
I've been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don’t actually don’t have any scenes with Michael Bolton. There’s an exposé done on Sue Sylvester, and he pops up… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's… — James Murray Copy Share Image
The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going… — Kevin Roberts Copy Share Image
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Freedom means the right to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did,… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
![“There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian and me and two assistants, although we're growing a little bit now. He read the [The Hunger Games] book and loved it, and told me I should read it. He had been a fan of…” quote by Nina Jacobson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d21/nina-jacobson-8759_assistants_there-is-a-young-fella-who-works-for-me_2776624.jpg)
![“I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases…” quote by Chath Piersath](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4c4/chath-piersath-12764_art_i-met-mary-hamill-in-new-york-at-my-exhi_3093179.jpg)
![“George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.” quote by Barbara Mikulski](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/619/barbara-mikulski-8601_caucus_george-mitchell-introduced-the-idea-that_3150765.jpg)
![“Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b93/noam-chomsky-42_activism_another-recollection-is-that-paul-johnso_1421290.jpg)
