That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life.… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that was the… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover.… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things,… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy'… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people.… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend… — Jude Wanniski Copy Share Image
If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's… — George A Tice Copy Share Image
The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do… — David Rees Copy Share Image
The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never… — David Milch Copy Share Image
I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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