Ideas
"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." - Dr. Linus Pauling
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."…
If
"If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old testament retitled 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls'." - Terry Carr…
Ignorance
"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance." - Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of his Humour, pub. 1599
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action". - Goethe
"It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and…
Imagination
"An idea is salvation by imagination." - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959
"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination." - Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices," pub. A.D. 1941
"Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that…
Immortality
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
Impossible
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." - Ray Bradbury
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." - Aristotle
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement… let me…
Imprisoned
"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release." - Germaine Greer
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked…
Individuality
"Be yourself. The world worships the original." - Ingrid Bergman
"Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself." - Ralph Waldo
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and…
Inferno
"A person who has not passed through the inferno of their passions has never overcome them." - Carl Gustav Jung
"The world-spirit in exile must go through the Inferno of matter and the Purgatory of morals to arrive at the…
Infinite
"The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of life." - Carl Jung, Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Fleece, pub. 1929
"For after all what is man…
Infinity
"In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder." - Pearl Buck, 1892-1973
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they…
Influences
"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life." - Giorgos Seferis
In His own image
"If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that god is a coward, an idiot and a bounder." - H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, pub. A.D. 1919-1927
"When you tell me that your…
Inhuman
"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses." - James Baldwin
"Artists are, above all, men who want to become…
Insomnia
"It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out…
Inspiration
"Inspiration: a peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God." - Voltaire
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." -…
Internet
"It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not…
Invention
"God forgives those who invent what they need." - Lillian Hellman, 1905-1987
Invisible
"Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe." - Leopold Senghor, Senegalese poet
"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." - Jonathan Swift
"Intellect is invisible to the person who hasn't any." - Arthur Schopenhauer
Ionesco
"The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just…
Irony
"There's a fine line between participation and mockery." - Scott Adams
"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them." - Heisenberg
"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All…
