Quotes of: Ideas Keyword

... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines. The incidents of the travel made me forget my mathematical work. Having reached Coutances, we entered an omnibus to go to some place or ot...

Henri Poincare

As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. The message of the competition/efficiency/marketplace Trinity seem...

John Ralston Saul

Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility? What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter--my own nakedness or the grief ...

Dorothy Allison

Eddie Adams: Jack, I was thinking about my name, y'know? Jack Horner: Yeah? Eddie Adams: I was wondering if you had any ideas. Jack Horner: I've got a few, but you tell me. Eddie Adams: Well, my idea was, y'know, I want a name, I want it so it can cu...

Boogie Nights

Street Poet: Daydream delusion, limousine eyelash / Oh baby with your pretty face / Drop a tear in my wineglass / Look at those big eyes / See what you mean to me / Sweet-cakes and milkshakes / I'm a delusion angel / I'm a fantasy parade / I want you...

Before Sunrise

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.

Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice

Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Chaos: Making a New Science

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

Cosmos

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

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

My heart and my cock seemed to like the idea, and Whitney made me a slave to both, so my wits were outnumbered.

Declaration

He, Dominix Alexander Zubiri, was in love. With a woman who gagged at the thought of sucking his dick. The universe's idea of a colossal joke.

Devil

I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

Dead to the World

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

A Discovery of Witches

She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.

East of Eden

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Emma

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

The Enemy

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

The Fountainhead

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

Galileo Galilei

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Gone Girl