Ideas Quotes · Page 134

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

— Gerald Brommer

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea…

— Joni Mitchell

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

— Frederick C. Beiser

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

— Leon Trotsky

“We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.”

— Ann Patchett

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

— Jane Rule

We lead through partnership - offering solutions forged in principle, not partisanship; in data, not demagoguery; in ideas, not ideology.

— Wes Moore

A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like…

— Markus Zusak

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak,…

— Clive Anderson

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would…

— Gijs de Vries

Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a…

— Richard Salter Storrs

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside…

— Seth

Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation…

— Roger Cohen

My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good…

— George Burns

Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided…

— Rick Riordan

Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.…

— Robert J. Shiller

We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie…

— Ron Clements

The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want…

— Lydia M. Child

There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty…

— Andrew Solomon

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their…

— Charles Dickens

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

— Holly Near

I am interested in a constructive approach, which looks at how wealth can be created using bright ideas that will help India…

— Vivek Agnihotri

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

— James Toback

Kanye is the leading eagle: he's like the president who stands up for kids like us who have ideas.

— Travis Scott

I like the idea of baking. I'd like to be good at it. But I feel like I'm young and one day…

— Thu Tran

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate…

— Emma Watson

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

— Gavin Bryars

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

— Isak Dinesen

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.

— Ruth Wilson

Good thing about tea is; It never gives you any problem. All it has to offer is a cup of Ideas and…

— Biman Gandhi

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;…

— Stephane Mallarme

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a…

— Ted Lindsay

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for…

— Richard Bach

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

— Ann Patchett

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

— Darcey Steinke

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

— Lily King