I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money… — Andrea McLean Copy Share Image
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am. — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It's always different though.… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for… — Daniel Powter Copy Share Image
People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces… — Bryan Beller Copy Share Image
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“If there are people in your organization who feel they are not free to suggest ideas, you lose.” — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together. — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens. — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I like the idea that we can contain our weirdness, but I prefer it when we wear it all over ourselves. — Kelly Oxford Copy Share Image
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics. — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance. — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
