Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications,… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the… — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let… — Dan Wieden Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts.… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office,… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
It's a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to… — Caroline Ghosn Copy Share Image
This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a… — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
