My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

I've had many ideas come from clients.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!