Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn,… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and… — Tim Blixseth Copy Share Image
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is -… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve… — Mike Hulme Copy Share Image
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were… — Dwight Longenecker Copy Share Image
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I… — Patricia Urquiola Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
It's the only thing I really enjoy - so fresh, even now that I'm doing the new sampling. I'm dying to go… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The… — Raul Castro Copy Share Image
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts,… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
This is really a crazy idea, you know. It probably won't work, but that will be interesting, too. You have to motivate… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Darwinism is under official protection throughout the world. No other ideology in history, no other idea, has ever been kept under such… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more… — Mia Moretti Copy Share Image
...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more,… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
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