Staircase Closet

Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray. - Seymoure Cray

Only through practice can new ideas truly be evaluated. - Unknown

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. - Elbert Hubbard

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. - David Ogilvie

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne

My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs. - Steven Wright

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? - Kinky Friedman

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. - Mason Cooley

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

While you were busy judging others you left your closet open and your skeletons fell out. - Unknown

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes. - Imelda Marcos

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. - Charles Spurgeon

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you cannot get them across, your ideas will not get you anywhere. - Lee Iacocca

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck

Never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. - Pearl Bailey

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. - Paula Poundstone

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence. - William A. Ward

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it. - Naomi Watts

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas. - Joseph Stalin

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. - Thomas Jefferson

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. - Alfred North Whitehead

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content and enthusiasm, and ideas about how to solve that problem. - Laura Fitton

At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. - Erica Jong

Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. - Biz Stone

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any. - Orson S. Card