There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've… — Alan Rudolph Copy Share Image
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The whole transgender movement idea is happening in waves around the world. Some areas of the world are further along politically than… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through -… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making… — Ana Tijoux Copy Share Image
It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia.… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your… — Jay Abraham Copy Share Image
Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for… — Frontinus Copy Share Image
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I saw this trend happening with the proliferation of guitar clinics and schools. And I was approached to do a camp in… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I've played under many managers - some fantastic, some average, and some not so good. Even if it's not intentional, you log… — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature,… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image