I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.
When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible
There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.
It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.
Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.
I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.
What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
I don't like the idea of drama schools. They only perpetuate the myth that everyone can do what I do
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.
The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.
I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me
People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.