ideas

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea _ what abortion is to sperm.

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!

The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There one might have sat the clock round lost in thought. Thought --to call it by a prouder name than it deserved-- had let its line down into the stream. It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it until --you know the little tug -- the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out? Alas, laid on the grass how small, how insignificant this thought of mine looked; the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating.

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

An idea is like a spark in the dark _ it makes everything brighter.

A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!