Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for… — Frontinus Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to… — Lunice Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama,… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
“I am in awe,” he said. “Where do all these ideas come from?” “I think from a lifetime of only being able… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've… — Alan Rudolph Copy Share Image
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing.… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently.… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The idea that you can cross a dimension, or commune with the dead, or life on other planets... these are the great… — James Roday Copy Share Image
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