Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The idea of introducing the Seven Seas is absolutely to challenge Aquaman on an emotional and personal level. His responsibility is unification… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances,… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted… — Freddie Prinze, Jr Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I… — Kim Swift Copy Share Image
The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
For me, the key question is what's behind the dangerous idea. If it's simply to stir things up and appear radical, I'm… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
I think the best thing we can do is sell that idea of smaller government - of fiscal responsibility vs. the Obama… — Richard Mourdock Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible, and this idea that everyone should conform and be… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
“What’s the idea?” “The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines… — John Maus Copy Share Image
Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He realized that time, clocks ticking, everything is just a human-made concept. That clocks didn’t tick back in the times he was… — Chandler Ivanko Copy Share Image
I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years… — Jaime Pressly Copy Share Image
I can see why people love the idea of a big white wedding - it is a day when they are the… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture… — Ma Huateng Copy Share Image
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
There's something about seeing a movie that you like, and being able to see the scenes that didn't make it, just as… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete,… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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