In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts..

I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good wh….

I have no idea why my mom picked Bob, and I've never asked her. My name used to get slaughtered all the time by other people. I was 'Desmond' or 'Dam….

Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I….

The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are….

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the St….

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes ….

There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the inter….

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a t….

Basically it's the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they're still human and th….

I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if y….

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engag….

It is never a good idea to not be comfortable..

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff..

I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to. For many years I carried came….

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipli….

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, ….

I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup..

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say..

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures a….

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and….