Quote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. ―Ellen Hopkins, “Manifesto” Image © Quinn Dombrowski with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Terence McKenna
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the …
Quote for Today: Diane Setterfield
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new …
Quote for Today: John Cage
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. ―John Cage Image: No Escape © Wes Peck with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Public Domain Image via pexels.com
Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like …
Quote for Today: Philip Pullman
Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more …
On Unlocking Creativity, Ideas as Viruses: Robin Young Interviews Elizabeth Gilbert
The way that I’ve always thought about creativity is that ideas are these disembodied life forms, they don’t have a form but they have a will, and all they want …
Quote for Today: Colson Whitehead
As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable …
Quote for Today: John Green
When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, …