America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and… — John Noble Copy Share Image
I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who… — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don't believe it… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure… — Sam Worthington Copy Share Image
I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is… — Gene Roddenberry 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 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 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
It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
Captain looks at Janie closely. "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph," she says. "You're gonna have a heck of a shiner by the time… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
I don't think there is just one Louis Vuitton woman. That is why, for the fall/winter 2011 show, I loved the idea… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually… — Michael Giles Copy Share Image
I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack… — Thomas Tull Copy Share Image
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I can't see the point in being in politics if you're not yourself. If you're simply interested in implementing other people's policies,… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image