There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Be sure to ‘notice’ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells… — Tim Westergren Copy Share Image
“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out… — Dave Robinson Copy Share Image
Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur,… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Broadcast TV has a very classy but old-fashioned way of doing television. That's what it's always going to be. But you've still… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
To be sure, the Fair Tax is a big idea. However, I believe America was built on big ideas, and I was… — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The left think they've got a monopoly on this silly idea that we are a nation of immigrants, America's greatness is traceable… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The… — John G. Miller Copy Share Image
The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point.… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I wish I had left him as he was. I wish you had told me this would happen. (Amanda) Told you what,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image