For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality.… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
“I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with. — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
