Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough. — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest… — Abel Hermant Copy Share Image
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas'… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation.… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
“(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?') There are three problems with… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
If you are working 24/7, you're not going to have any interesting ideas. — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the… — Cristela Alonzo Copy Share Image
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation. — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true. — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image