When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in...

Ideas are mallable and unstable; they not only can be misused, they invite misuse—and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That’s because only the better ideas turn into dogma, and it is...

Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the...

They may throw sticks, stones, or bricks, but nothing they do will hurt you. You are protected by God. He is forever got you covered and the enemy is defeated. Their hatred towards you is...

I don’t have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don’t even know who the people are. I think that’s good, because then you don’t have preconceived ideas...

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching – that way, you pick up new ideas.

I hate our current leaders becouse they don’t know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind.

We become what we think; we don’t become what we don’t think about. When we think of a bigger picture, that’s what we get printed.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Ce n’est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées.”(“It’s not the first time I’ve noticed how much more power words have than ideas,...

We began with an afternoon of brainstorming ideas about what we wanted the conference to address. We let these ideas sit for a couple weeks and continued e-mailing comments over the e-mail list-serve before meeting...

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn’t. Of course I wouldn’t make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I...

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I’m liberated.

If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas … and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others...

Library. It’s where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas,” I said solemnly. “Very dangerous place to be.

Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.

On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées.(One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.)

Stories are one of the most powerful ways in which we communicate ideas among ourselves. They are the stuff that brings us together, the things we celebrate, the things we share with one another.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own...

We need to stand on each others shoulders and share thoughts and ideas on how to improve tourism and the economy for Emery County.

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years...

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a...

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes...

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with...

There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into stories, into films, books, because they feel their lives are somehow...

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Positive people know what they are about to do and why. Because of this, when they are being haunted by the premature quest to give up, they focus their minds onto the joy of accomplishing...

If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!

I do absolutely think I’ll want to get married again. I don’t really have any negative ideas about it.

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can’t bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with...

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

Ideas are like virus. Dangerous ideas are like deadly virus.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.[Remarks Recorded for the Opening of a USIA Transmitter, February 8 1963]