If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work..

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It s….

I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and shar….

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentati….

Nevertheless, it is probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incrementa….

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it..

Love finds us where we are, not where we were..

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I ne….

I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don't have a process for properly examining these i….

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two..

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart..

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your ….

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part i….

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference..

The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic..

Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea..

If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart..

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in u….

You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a fe….

"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reco….

I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not translate into decoration on pottery. I t….