Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really… — Richard Thomas Copy Share Image
Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
As we have seen in our own history, the injection of new ideas from other worlds transformed life for all, and with… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Things that people thought not possible when they were proposed and blown off become enormously successful. There are a lot of ideas… — James Merlino Copy Share Image
I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business… — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
If you're a leader at any level and your people aren't challenging you, you've got to change that or you can't be… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in… — Tommy Ramone Copy Share Image
A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
We [film supervisors] always try to encourage discussion in the room because a lot of times newer animators who are just out… — Victor Navone Copy Share Image
Airports - they're not my idea of fun at all. Some of the staff are lovely, but you do always get one… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation.… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image