Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
After we finished touring 'Ignore The Ignorant' we had this perfect idea that we were going to take a couple of years… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
“Siri ya utajiri ni mawazo ya mtu. Maisha unayoishi uliyataka mwenyewe. Amka uishi. Hii ndiyo siri kubwa ya utajiri kuliko zote ulimwenguni.… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up-… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of this stuff. I'm sick of them doing it. I'm sick and tired of it working. I'm sick… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
Crowdsourcing can greatly increase the number of ideas entering the front-end of the innovation funnel, however, using the wrong source can result… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of.… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be… — Kevin Rose Copy Share Image
Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain stage those early ambitions burn away, partly because you achieve something, you get something done, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image