It is time to call out Google for what it is: a monopolist in search, video, maps and browser, and a thin-skinned… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue… — Terence Fisher Copy Share Image
The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people.… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Storyboarding is what I call an "idea landscape" - one that can help unleash creativity, improve communication, and identify practical solutions to… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill.… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea… — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like… — Vince Clarke Copy Share Image
Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the… — Bono Copy Share Image
I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that… — Brian May Copy Share Image
Every idea can be altered, but not every belief. That's why I choose to live a life full of open mindedness and… — Becca B Copy Share Image
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of… — Paulina Porizkova Copy Share Image
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