Abstract Quote by James Ransone

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

— Robert Greene

We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in abstract thought…

— Michael Rosen

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

— Luther Standing Bear

The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true.…

— William H. Gass

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

— Joaquin Phoenix

I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.

— Richard Saul Wurman

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

— Jesse Ball

If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of…

— John G. Kemeny

My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.

— Robyn Davidson

One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is…

— Lucy Corin

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

— Colson Whitehead

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just -…

— Robert Barry