Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out. – Jay Griffiths
One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one’s own ideas. – Kim Jee-woon
A lot of the things that we’ve been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence. – Jane Harman
Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas. – Lisa Randall
I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a ‘blogger,’ as this is just one form of output for creative ideas. – Keri Smith
I don’t think Philadelphia’s challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here. – Josh Kopelman
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. – Lionel Trilling
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas. – Josiah Royce
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. – Jan Peter Balkenende
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. – Larry Wall
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them. – Kate Grenville
Don’t get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they’re not always creatively your most useful things to know. – Janet Weiss
The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time. – James Collins
There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton. – John Podesta
I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests – let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means. – Janos Kadar
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. – Laurie Helgoe
I get a lot of the ideas when I’m resting – either when I’m meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That’s where I get my best ideas, maybe because I’m balancing my body. – Katy Perry
There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn’t know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn’t find it. There was nothing. – Kathryn Minshew
I like working with actors who make choices. Whether they get their ideas from me or from themselves, I want them to own all the choices so I can take my hand out of it. – Kenny Leon
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, – the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. – Johann Georg Hamann
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. – James C. Maxwell
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. – Milton Friedman
I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I’d like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need – inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy. – Lisa Loeb
We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it. – Jay Roach
I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don’t have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later. – Jaime Hernandez
I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile. – Kevin Cramer
Nelson McCormack on ‘Killing Kennedy’ was really terrific because I wrote the script, and he had some terrific ideas. We went over the script together, and I was with him on set. So it was a collaborative effort. – Kelly Masterson
