I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities,… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
If you are predisposed to be patient, disciplined and psychologically appreciate the idea of buying bargains, then you're likely to be good… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Every time Mulder smiles, people say, 'God, it was great to see you smile. Mulder never smiles.' I say, 'Mulder smiles a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away.… — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
While the idea of taking you right now, against the wall, is enough to make me lose control, I want you to… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate;… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The key is that I'm always relevant. Some of these comedians have nothing to say. They don't have any ideas so it's… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers,… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Whenever they asked me the question about what are you going to do about ISIS, I say, you know, I have a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Friends of Bernard's [Leach] came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
A lot of times I go to a comedy show, I sit there and wait for the comedian to run out of… — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image