Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world–the brains of men.

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the...

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

Somebody once asked me where I come up with my stuff. I replied, “Who knows? Where does yellow snow come from? It’s just a gift from God I guess.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found...

The Berlin Wall wasn’t the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also...

There’s a kid or some kids somewhere. I’ll never know them. They’re particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moosefart, Montana. They might be demi-dystopians from Dogdick, Delaware. They dig my demonic dramas. The...

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they...

It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.

An idea? An idea won’t get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with...

I’m sure that nobody in China would be arrested or detained because of their ideas or any proposals that are not illegal.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

It’s amazing how ideas start out, isn’t it?

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist principles. When I say religion, I do not mean merely a theology involving...

Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We’re not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about...

It isn’t an idea until it’s created, irrespective of its result

Whatever we’re into, we go out and look at what other people are doing and try to get ideas. So our human resources department set up a trip to Griffin. We were really impressed.

Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.

Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own...

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it...

The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

…M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of...

I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real...

It’s time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose...

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an...

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.

The term “political correctness” has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell’s “Thought Police” and fascist regimes.

If you don’t have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it’s given to you! If you don’t have an idea, you can’t even know how much money you need… This is...

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

We’ve come up with a lot of ideas, but we seem to be struggling on which are the most important.

Ideas are like money: people kill for ideas.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I’d rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Angie: “How do I pitch these ideas to her?”Mira: “From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

A writer is a messenger for the subconscious.

And, if you’ll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you’ll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just...

If I don’t think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!