When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I think that some of the earliest ideas in the modern period were actually from astronomy. You look at Galileo: He goes… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting… — Rob Brown Copy Share Image
The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into.… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough... it's too hard... it's… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
When you educate and develop your players, it is important they recognise you are sometimes crazy and a child and want to… — Julian Nagelsmann Copy Share Image
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed… — Edward E. Barnard Copy Share Image
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very… — Dale Ahlquist Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea.… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea,… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to… — Kathleen Winsor Copy Share Image
In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” “I’m… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is… — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I can never get my ideas across to people where they totally understand it completely, so I'm just like: 'I'm going to… — Bianca Belair Copy Share Image
I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image