Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not… — Seth Copy Share Image
I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein… — John Yau Copy Share Image
The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our… — Lilias Trotter Copy Share Image
Most producers today are little bedroom producers and then they get their record and get signed by an agency and go on… — Cedric Gervais Copy Share Image
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I noticed a lot of bands always having a few people in the band being interested in recording and audio production, so… — Joey Sturgis Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
It's great to meet people in a setting where it's really conducive to hanging out and having fun. Most film festivals are… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting.… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas,… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic… — Lou Diamond Phillips Copy Share Image
