In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But….

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light..

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak..

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas….

Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage….

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise….

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book..

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but eve….

It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to bec….

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted ….

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted..

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness..

You get ideas from other people all the time..

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did..

God, harden me against myself!.

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit o….

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights..

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference..

Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers wav….

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side..