You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Normally, for a musical, the first step with my collaborators is to figure out the story and the outline and really be… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality -… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Mash-ups have gained a lot of credibility between the fall of Danger Mouse's infamous 'Grey Album' and the rise of Girl Talk's… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
I still think there is a huge emphasis on how women look, whether it's fitting a certain mold to play a certain… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made… — John Landis Copy Share Image
My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head...… — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
“I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like "Where do your ideas come from?" Or to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial… — Leo Bogart Copy Share Image
Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image