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Idea Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
- But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or…
- The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing,…
- America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the…
- Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will…
- I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.
- That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
More Idea Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden