Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
For the foreseeable future, we're going to need oil products because I don't like the idea of hydrogen cars. I'm not sure… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the… — Ray William Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting… — Wooden Leg Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and… — Norman Dodd Copy Share Image
I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
A publication depends on a great idea, not there being a market out there. You start with an idea rather than trying… — Andrew Heiskell Copy Share Image
I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas'… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit.… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When I'd read the script [The Man], [ Eugene Levy] that's who I'd seen in my mind. When I ran into him,… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
![“I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's…” quote by Zachary Quinto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf5/zachary-quinto-4021_abram_i-feel-like-that-the-role-in-star-trek-i_2487110.jpg)
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![“When I'd read the script [The Man], [ Eugene Levy] that's who I'd seen in my mind. When I ran into him, I said to him, 'I read the script. You'd be great.' He had no idea what I was talking about. Then, we saw each other again in London. He'd read it and was enthused about it.” quote by Samuel L. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66d/samuel-l-jackson-3595_books_when-i-d-read-the-script-the-man-eugene_2645698.jpg)
