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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.