We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it. — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!" — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The American people are going to be ready for an era of realism. Theyve seen the consequences of having too many big… — James Carville Copy Share Image
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers,… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
Government and opposition both have important roles to play. While giving expression to their political ideas, both must move forward in tandem… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Their [Republicans] approach to a woman's body is the same as their approach to the economy: they have no idea how it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“I believe, in life, there is no such thing as a bad idea. Only ideas that work and ideas that do not.” — Mandy Baggot Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented. — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself. — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image