All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds. — John Green Copy Share Image
The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students. — Clark Kerr Copy Share Image
I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone. — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
I suppose the doctor-patient relationship has that idea of transference. I think it's a special thing that doctors have. We all find… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being in New York for 10 days during the World Series and appearing on a bunch of shows, I felt like it… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image