I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition,… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea.… — Linda Hunt Copy Share Image
I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” “I’m… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Many things we accept as fact today were ridiculed and opposed in the not-too-distant past; this goes to show that just because… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
That's pretty hot," he said. "Punching me in the eye?" "Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't… — Evan Glodell Copy Share Image
In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four. — Gerard I. Nierenberg Copy Share Image
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea. — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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