Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The idea here is for communities to decide how they meet these criteria for becoming sustainable economically, ecologically and socially.Through a community… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You want to trace California's move to the far left, you go back to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Simpson-Mazzoli was where we… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
When I signed to Interscope everything was already, like, whatever I wanted to do. Nobody really told me what direction to go… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
There must be free and open interdepartmental discussion and consideration of everyone's ideas and opinions. These internal discussions must not be considered… — Jerry Reinsdorf Copy Share Image
The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding… — Marc E. Platt Copy Share Image
There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei.… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
I think that was in the discussions when NBC finally bought it and was trying to figure out how to distinguish it… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks… — Bono Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then,… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
“We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I don't mind being recognized, it's just that I have a bit of social anxiety, and this situation has increased it. The… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end.… — Elizabeth Hawes Copy Share Image
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image