This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good….

The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen to it. They sleep ….

I hate the concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable! And I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people s….

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham B….

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative t….

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas..

Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be bro….

Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature ….

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel..

These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not correct. This issue, w….

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience..

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my wo….

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea..

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all..

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what….

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight..

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full..

People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really..

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right..

The simplest things give me ideas..

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of hu….