#idea

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#attracted #been #being #characters #circumstances

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#every #fire #idea #incitement #may

My dad's not a very intimidating father figure. ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#conform #even #everyone #horrible #i

I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas. ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#balance #bear #both #business #dying

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to. ↗

— Donnie Iris

#being #could #extremely #get #going

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#amendment #amendment rights #beliefs #believe #censorship

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#chose #could #drawn #entire #entire family

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#any #based #beautiful #been #compelling

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#entertain #home #idea #life #live

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#compete #each #few #forms #her