"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

Idea, Pen, Style, Will

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"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Idea, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."

Barbara Jordan, American Lawyer

Idea,

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Idea, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Wisdom

"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."

Stephen Fry, British Comedian

Idea,

"I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me."

Michael Nesmith, American Musician

Idea, Months, Solution, Thinking

"Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

Idea, Fact, Identity, Shakespeare

"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."

Leonard Nimoy, American Actor

Idea, Being, End

"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

Ken Thompson, American Scientist

Idea, Open, Unix

"When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that."

David Coverdale, English Musician

Idea, Help

"What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie."

Lusia Strus, American Actress

Idea, Light, Theatre

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"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."

Men

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

Time

"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."

Time

"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."

Illusion

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

Courage

"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."

"I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me."

"Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored."

"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."

"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

"When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that."

"What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie."

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"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."

"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."

"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so."

"Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done."

"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."