There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. – Lakhdar Brahimi
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 are ensured. – Lynn Abbey
If you write, one of the questions you’re always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. – Lynn Abbey
The themes, ideas and the characters from ‘Skyfall’ can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. – John Logan
As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington. – Kevin McCarthy
We don’t want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. – Laura Ashley
I’m not the new Cameron Diaz. I’m not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don’t know where these ideas come from. I’d rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I’ll happily settle for that. – Laura Haddock
You can’t truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities – our own ideas, our own possibilities – will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon. – John Twelve Hawks
I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around a set of principles, ideals and ideas for our future. – Marco Rubio
Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I’ve observed or someone’s told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality. – Laura Wade
I’ve never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn’t sew, I could think. – Jane Rule
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies. – Kevin Spacey
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. – Joseph Priestley
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously. – John Conyers
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that’s it. – Jim Lehrer
Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs. – Lydia Millet
I think good actors – good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production – can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves. – Joe Mantello
It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other. – John Vane
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves. – John M. Ford
I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts. – Lena Dunham
You don’t run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision. – Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Well, I don’t know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it’s always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she’s up to to be fair, and that’s the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever – that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job. – Jim Lehrer
My films don’t have instant impact because they’re dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I’m saying. – Michael Moore
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together. – Lukas Foss
