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
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
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
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 didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
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
Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans,… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
I could stay depressed about my bad memory, but that's a negative way to live. Let's look on the bright side and… — Hirohiko Araki Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
I went through a period when I was about 19 where I'd go tanning with my boyfriend in tanning beds. Yes, this… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest… — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Ideas are not - ideas come at me all the time; it's just the way I'm wired. It's just a matter of… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs.… — Fred Ritchin 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
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
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
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) 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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