Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't… — James Victore Copy Share Image
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but… — Rachel True Copy Share Image
I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more… — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable -… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I think that when I started Man Repeller, the Internet was still hungry for authentic content from girls that weren't actresses or… — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
Providing individuals with multiple pathways and resources to find work or foster ideas that both create jobs and address social challenges can… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
