...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us."… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who… — John Kuhn Copy Share Image
Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which… — Helen Barrett Montgomery Copy Share Image
I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real.… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic -… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My Instagram took on a life of its own and became very different from my Twitter. I never used Instagram to post.… — Tommaso Ciampa Copy Share Image
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
“So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...… — William James Copy Share Image
I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for --… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm… — Marc Kielburger Copy Share Image
To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our… — John Newton Copy Share Image