I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
When I'm doing something, it's something that I had a perspective on in my childhood, or now, but it may be different.… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but that's what I am. My… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they… — Steven Sample Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
For a black activist, for an activist of all walks of life, the Internet has become this kind of meeting place where… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live… — Errollyn Wallen Copy Share Image
Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make… — Maud Newton Copy Share Image
I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I'm always open to somebody else having a better idea, but I feel like, if it feels real, then people aren't thinking… — Anne Fletcher Copy Share Image
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I'll be honest - I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed,… — Joshua Fernandez Copy Share Image
The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
