I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I think the news people no longer have any idea of what covering the news is. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song. — Chris LeDoux Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of drama schools. They only perpetuate the myth that everyone can do what I do — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The best ideas in the world will accomplish nothing if you leave them on paper. Talk about them. Debate, discuss, argue. Put… — Kevin Stirtz Copy Share Image
I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western… — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“Ideas are like the flint stone of wondrous works. You scratch at them until a spark flies ... then the world catches fire.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place. — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing. — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make. — Rushworth Kidder Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions. — John Daly Copy Share Image
I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to… — Scott Tracey Copy Share Image
(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
