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 never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Idea is to constantly raise the bar, push the boundaries. Fitness is ultimately a journey, not a destination. — Gul Panag Copy Share Image
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic… — Lou Diamond Phillips Copy Share Image
If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas,… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and,… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer.… — Jennifer Shahade Copy Share Image
The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same… — Horace Kallen Copy Share Image
I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple,… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The way I understood purgatory - and maybe you've got a different version - but in Chicago in the '70s, the idea… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep. — Michael Bastian Copy Share Image
“the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
“I had a nice, long, hot shower but didn't come up with any great ideas. What a waste.” — Jordan Krumbine Copy Share Image
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling. — Robert F. Goheen Copy Share Image
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros. — Blaine Hogan Copy Share Image
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“In the age of connectedness the solution is to create ideas that people want to share.” — Ajaz Ahmed Copy Share Image
When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
