The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed… — Adam Hughes Copy Share Image
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It's very hard to win without any problems. To win, you have to fight. And many times, this fight means to indispose… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes… — Donald M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Before he died, Harry said that his wife knew everything about every trick that he did, and that she knew how they… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different… — Luke Pritchard Copy Share Image
“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Part of understanding the notion of Justice is to recognize the disproportions among which we live...it takes an awful lot of living… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue.… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
And I don't want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I find it very fascinating that one person or a group of people can get together as a choir and come up… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When we talked about a wall, right, to try to keep out this threat. The problem is that these are ideas. And… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image