Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work. — Donald Pleasence Copy Share Image
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.” — Pai Kit Fai Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to… — Charlotte Arnold Copy Share Image
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools…And as for sustained yield, no such idea had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever. — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole Copy Share Image
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. — Richard Scaife Copy Share Image
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself… — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious. — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to… — D. W. Griffith Copy Share Image