Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better. — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained. Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Ideas and thoughts are like genes...more you keep inside yourself more it multply with same species consuming your whole energy to breed… — Jagdish Poudel Copy Share Image
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary… — Novalis Copy Share Image
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Broaden yourself. You don't have to focus when you're 20. I think the broader you are, the better it is. Later you… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible! — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Me and a friend literally had the idea for Wedding Crashers and pitched it, and it was already a script. They go,… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression. — Rory Bremner 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
I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I want to go to New Zealand. I have no idea what it's like, and in my head, everyone lives in/on an… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it raised over $1.5 million in the 24 hours after he announced his bid. Meanwhile, a… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
