When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like. — Alan Green Copy Share Image
My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary… — Frans Johansson Copy Share Image
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and… — Norman Dodd Copy Share Image
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. — Joshua Schachter Copy Share Image
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like… — Lionel Messi Copy Share Image
Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular person who I look up to for fashion ideas. I just admire some women for the way… — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation. — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
My own idea about 3D is that it is there to enhance the viewing experience but I don't think that you have… — David Yates Copy Share Image
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas. — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea. — Ian Hunter Copy Share Image
I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
