Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art.… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
If I had 10 ideas and people said yes to all of them, half of them could be crap. But, if I've… — Thomas Ian Nicholas Copy Share Image
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender,… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle… — Duncan Long Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making… — Laura Ziskin Copy Share Image
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
We've got all these politicians talking about better health care and what all, but believe me, we're not going to have the… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look… — Kathy Najimy Copy Share Image
You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
“By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
People agree to say that it is rationality and science which have eliminated what is called magic and religion. But ultimately, the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I go back to [the idea] that we are avoiding all of these unknowns, we're avoiding the night - most of us… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost… — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this… — Barbara Rosenblat Copy Share Image
A lot of people have ideas and opinions on what Avenged Sevenfold should be or what we should do, and I think… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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