Staircase Closet

Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey

I do not get ideas; ideas get me. - Robertson Davies

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

Ideas govern the world or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte

Only ideas that we actually live by are of any value. - Hermann Hesse

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

I have so much hair, I have a separate wig closet in my house. - Sherri Shepherd

There is no elevator to success - you have to take the stairs. - Unknown

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. - James Roy Newman

I know the voices aren't real but they have some great ideas. - Unknown

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. - Lewis Black

The making of a journalist: No ideas and the ability to express them. - Karl Kraus

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. - Steven Wright

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. - John C Maxwell

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

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. - Thomas A. Edison

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

A habit cannot be tossed out the window. It must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain

Crafting fills my life, and my closets, and my drawers, and every empty tote bag in the house. - Unknown

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 elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. - Joe Girard

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

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. - Catherine O'Hara

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof. - Alan Moore

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. - Tim Blixseth

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard

It always seems that fights over ideas skip over the barrier into the real world and become battles of real violence. - Peter Parker

Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. The difference between Bill Clinton and myself is that he has a walk-in closet. - Pat Buchanan

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper. - Steven Wright

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

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

Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. - Voltaire

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken