You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony... →
Charlie Pierce
Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America... →
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the... →
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching... →
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist... →
Franklin Pierce
I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
Karl Pilkington
I like this idea of becoming fully realised.
Chris Pine