Nina Berberova Quotes

How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

Nina Berberova

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• 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
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• Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
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• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
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• When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.

  

  Ted Olson
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• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
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• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
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• In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Up
  • Important
  • Live

• Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

  

  Beck
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Exist

• I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Different
  • Live
  • Movie

• I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Ideas

• If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Start

• I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Ideas

• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Ideas
  • Generation
  • Physics

• My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Ideas
  • Enough
  • Process

• The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Ideas
  • Adopt
  • Idiotic

• I stay current and draw inspiration from Fashion Week in New York as well as just by scrolling through Instagram. The runways are always a good sign of what's to come, but I also get tons of ideas from real girls on the street.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Fashion
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration

• The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Believe
  • Ideas
  • Minutes

• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Book
  • Fact
  • Publish

• I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • Young
  • Blind

• How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • Ideas
  • Truths
  • Superstitions