As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
... we kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But,… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like… — Alex Day Copy Share Image
Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
She wandered over to the enclosed range, a rather modern-looking contraption that Cook had purchased earlier in the year. "Do you know… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
William: I just had the best idea ever. Let's give Maddox a ring. Paris: You mean propose to him? To grumpy ole… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and… — Scott Crow Copy Share Image
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects,… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that,… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you're quiet and you're just not the most gregarious person, that you're like..… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
There is a heavy-ego, solitary model of being an elected leader. We've certainly seen that in some other mayors of this city...… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion.… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
![“They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/950/jeffrey-rosen-13180_backgrounds_they-said-ok-nine-louis-brandeis-s-is-to_526142.jpg)
![“Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as…” quote by Clarence Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c65/clarence-thomas-7661_black_long-gone-is-the-time-when-we-opposed-th_2627070.jpg)
![“The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential…” quote by Paul Baran](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bf8/paul-baran-60937_advertising_the-greatest-damage-done-by-advertising_2077341.jpg)
![“I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little…” quote by Charles Busch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ea0/charles-busch-30217_ancient_i-had-two-chances-to-fail-working-for-di_1801302.jpg)
