#ideas

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time. ↗

— David Mamet

#bad time #costumes #had #how #ideas

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#considered #contradictory #democracy #equality #exclusive

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. ↗

— Yann Martel

#because #certain #disbelief #help #i

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#basically #been #before #got #great

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#been #blue #friends #harassed #i

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. ↗

— Simone Weil

#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#america #being #country #demonstrate #did

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out. ↗

— Peter Weiss

#clogged #dead #even #generation #ideas

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. ↗

— Edward Weston

#active #acts #age #bodies #decisively

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step. ↗

— Kim Weston

#essence #eventually #formulating #going #ideas