the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the… — Gordon Matta-Clark Copy Share Image
I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass… — John Green Copy Share Image
The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
The whole idea of celebrity is flattering - it helps you get into restaurants and stuff - but once you obtain some… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idea is a noble one — an idea that fills and expands all generous souls; the idea of equality — the equality… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image