I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Every idea can be altered, but not every belief. That's why I choose to live a life full of open mindedness and… — Becca B Copy Share Image
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“The truth is that we never know from whom we originally get the ideas and beliefs that shape us, those that make… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like… — Vince Clarke Copy Share Image
Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the… — Bono Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that… — Brian May Copy Share Image
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people.… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue… — Terence Fisher Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea… — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image
The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
It is time to call out Google for what it is: a monopolist in search, video, maps and browser, and a thin-skinned… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image