The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I really like the idea of music when it has form and then sort of loses its form, or becomes noise, and… — Kevin Huizenga Copy Share Image
If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
He held to the idea that the Jewish people, so often victims of injustice and persecution, should have a state where they… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas… — Mariko Mori Copy Share Image
And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I've heard you. Your cause is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. We must look up to God, as the young… — Tukaram Copy Share Image
“The ideas, the things I was saying about science and ghosts, and even that idea this afternoon about caring and technology—they are… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
We really are based on this idea that teachers have all this pent-up classroom expertise and that if we could just empower… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Mr. Wenger could have moved on to another club, I am sure, but instead chose to stay and build something over the… — Lukas Podolski Copy Share Image
We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons.… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment -… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to… — Barry Blitt Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper"… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I always like it when someone attractive to me agrees with me, so I have fond memories of Phil Fisher. The idea… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
