Quotes by category:Ideas

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

typical people ideas

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at... by Anna Deavere Smith

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Anna Deavere Smith

mind ideas interesting

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people aroun... by Anna Deavere Smith

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

people ideas thinking

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

Anna Deavere Smith

land hands ideas

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas. by Anna Deavere Smith

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

people ideas firsts

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think y... by Anna Faris

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

stupid ideas thinking

We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

arena fighting ideas

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit. by Anna Godbersen

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

no-idea suits ideas

One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.

Anna Julia Cooper

southern country ideas

... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic. They leave nothing to be desired generally in regard to gallantry and chivalry, but they actually do not seem sometimes to have outgrown that old contemporary of chivalry--the idea that women may stand on pedestals or live in doll houses,... but they must not furrow their brows with thought or attempt to help men tug at the great questions of the world.

Anna Julia Cooper

house men ideas

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Anna Julia Cooper

oratory quiet ideas

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

confused mind ideas

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more fro... by Anna Letitia Barbauld

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

able education ideas

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Anna Letitia Barbauld

education ideas son

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

frustration people ideas

I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.

knowing long ideas

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. by Anna Quindlen

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

literature made ideas

In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire, I think that there's the subrosa feeling that we are at the end of the American century, and I think that's very, very hard for Americans to take.

feelings ideas thinking

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

personality wings ideas