'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Just as the sharpening of iron is produced by tension, collision and heat, enduring ideas are created through intense debate and informed… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
You're going to pee in someone's suitcase?" "Do you have any other ideas?" And suddenly Miracolina begins to snicker, then giggle, then… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I still had the same frustration with trying to play [Edward Cullen], the entire way through, right up until the last shot.… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11;… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
Everyone is using the same programs, everyone is looking at the same opening ideas. I wouldn't say everyone is necessarily the same… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House… — Andrew P. Harris Copy Share Image
“Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness… — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Sometimes I like practicing, sometimes I don't. But I like the result... I hardly ever get discouraged. Maybe right when it's very… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger… — Alfred Lin Copy Share Image
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh,… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others… — John Brown Copy Share Image
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![“I still had the same frustration with trying to play [Edward Cullen], the entire way through, right up until the last shot. It's a strange part because, on the one hand, a lot of the audience projects their idea of Edward[Cullen] onto him. It doesn't matter what he is. They want him to be a…” quote by Robert Pattinson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/470/robert-pattinson-778_audience_i-still-had-the-same-frustration-with-tr_2155993.jpg)
![“I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.” quote by John Brown](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f0b/john-brown-15897_deny_i-want-you-to-understand-that-i-respect_2400722.jpg)
