#ideas

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. ↗

— John Ruskin

#embodied #greatest #greatest artist #greatest number #his

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#i #ideas #mind #roles #specific

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#conscious mind #dismiss #experience #great #ideas

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#appeals #emotional #fears #future #ideas

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#enterprise #entrepreneurs #free #free enterprise #hone

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#dinner #down #i #ideas #sit

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas. ↗

— Saadi

#coming #fate #group #had #heard

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#coherent #does #down #everywhere #find