The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Over the years you just pick up inspiration and ideas bubble away in my mind. — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of… — Thomas S. Power Copy Share Image
You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life? — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on. — Nelson Rodrigues Copy Share Image
The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport… — Kirsty Gallacher Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image