Quotes About Ideas

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two ideas - that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.

It is not unlikely that she would have accepted any idea encased in this radiant formula—which was perhaps not a formula; it was the reductio ad absurdum of all formulas.

Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two idea--that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.

As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

Andava flertando com ideias rançosas, como se a vaidade física já não alimentasse seu coração despótico.

The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and

forces you to make choices and brings clarity and order to your ideas.

The existence of laws for the association of ideas, as for all intellectual operations, insults our native indiscipline.

All our abstract intelligence is good for is constructing systems, or semi-systematic ideas, which for animals is a simple matter of lying in the sun.

Literature simulates life. A novel is a history of what never was and a play is a novel without narrative. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, since no one speaks in verse.

This isn't the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse.

Não é esse o caso da literatura. Essa simula a vida. Um romance é uma história do que nunca foi. (...) Um poema é a expressão de ideias ou de sentimentos em linguagem que ninguém emprega, pois que ninguém fala em verso.

Cómo sabéis que viajando así no me rejuvenezco oscuramente? Infantil de absurdo, revivo mi propia infancia y juego con las ideas de las cosas como con soldados de plomo, con los cuales, de pequeño, hacía cosas que nada tenían que ver con un soldado.   Ebrio de errores, me pierdo a veces por sentirme vivir.

Nunca amamos a alguien. Amamos, tan sólo, la idea que nos hacemos de alguien. Es a un concepto nuestro –en suma, es a nosotros mismo– a quien amamos.

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.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

I think that's where you get your inspiration from. Your favorite things that you love.

I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.