I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. ~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat. ~By Michael Newdow ~
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. ~By Mortimer Adler ~
One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas. ~By Robert Byrne ~
I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right. ~By Suzy Bogguss ~
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ~By Godfrey Harold Hardy ~
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me. ~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer. ~By Nancy Sinatra ~
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. ~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways. ~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. ~By Stan Getz ~
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. ~By E. Stanley Jones ~
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers. ~By Vivienne Westwood ~
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place. ~By Larry Wachowski ~
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. ~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. ~By William Howard Taft ~
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power. ~By Paul Wellstone ~
I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. ~By Mark Ruffalo ~
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. ~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. ~By Dorothy Thompson ~
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. ~By Elie Wiesel ~
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. ~By Ezra Pound ~
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. ~By Earl Nightingale ~
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee. ~By James Longstreet ~
I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way. ~By Lucinda Williams ~
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. ~By Lady Bird Johnson ~
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot. ~By Trevor Rabin ~
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time. ~By Thomas Perry ~
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons. ~By Paul Conrad ~
I think a duet with Janet is a great idea. ~By Paula Abdul ~
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars. ~By George Miller ~
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure. ~By Vinton Cerf ~
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. ~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. ~By Herbert Croly ~
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality. ~By Murray Gell Mann ~
We're all idealistic when young. ~By Pat Oliphant ~
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments. ~By Robert Barany ~
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location. ~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. ~By Jeremy Paxman ~
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. ~By John Gray ~
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous. ~By Robert Shea ~
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. ~By Voltaire ~
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life. ~By Immanuel Velikovsky ~
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. ~By John Doolittle ~
One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved. ~By Bill Nelson ~
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. ~By John Kricfalusi ~
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ~By James Longstreet ~
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. ~By Guy Kawasaki ~
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. ~By Walter Lang ~
We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness. ~By Linda McCartney ~
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever. ~By Ted Nelson ~
And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life. ~By James Earl Jones ~
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. ~By Stella Adler ~
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ~By Ulrich Beck ~
Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. ~By Craig Bruce ~
I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes. ~By Dana Carvey ~
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible. ~By Russell Hoban ~
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. ~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas. ~By Shawn Fanning ~
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. ~By Joey Skaggs ~
I had no idea how big the show was at the time we were doing it because I was always working. ~By Lee Majors ~
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. ~By Ralph Bakshi ~
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. ~By Robin Day ~
I did the cover of Cigar Aficionado, so I'm supposed to talk about loving cigars. I've smoked them a couple of times. My father used to smoke cigars. I love the idea and the concept, and I love the smell of cigars. ~By Gina Gershon ~
People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio. ~By Jimmy Smith ~
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. ~By Roger von Oech ~
They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college. ~By Michael N. Castle ~
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ~By Arnold H. Glasgow ~
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. ~By Ludwig Quidde ~
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ~By Benjamin Britten ~
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening. ~By Brian De Palma ~
But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it. ~By David Axelrod ~
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all. ~By Murray Kempton ~
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. ~By Paul Eldridge ~
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. ~By Bette Midler ~
If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it! ~By Bryan White ~
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. ~By Giorgio Vasari ~
Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world. ~By Jeff Goldblum ~
That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about. ~By Jennifer Connelly ~
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. ~By Neil LaBute ~
Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. ~By Arto Lindsay ~
When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased. ~By Rachel True ~
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. ~By Roger Ebert ~
I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together. ~By Tom Verlaine ~
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. ~By Milan Kundera ~
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. ~By Neil Gaiman ~
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. ~By Tom G. Palmer ~
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce. ~By Marianne Williamson ~
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent. ~By Tucker Carlson ~
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic. ~By Jane Horrocks ~
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. ~By Wendell Willkie ~
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. ~By Wentworth Miller ~
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience. ~By Arthur Cayley ~
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. ~By Alexander Payne ~
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. ~By Lawrence Lessig ~
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. ~By Simon Callow ~
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