Ideas Quotes · Page 192

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the…

— Rostam Batmanglij

Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think…

— Stephen King

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

— Alan Moore

I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.

— Rana el Kaliouby

“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires”

— Richard Wright

Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

— David Ogilvy

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon…

— Jane Addams

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it…

— David Nicholls

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off…

— Harrison Birtwistle

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all…

— Brian Eno

Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in…

— Ludwig von Mises

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really…

— Joseph Stalin

Mash-ups have gained a lot of credibility between the fall of Danger Mouse's infamous 'Grey Album' and the rise of Girl Talk's…

— Anthony Fantano

I still think there is a huge emphasis on how women look, whether it's fitting a certain mold to play a certain…

— Lily Collins

Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'…

— George Mikes

How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I…

— Nikola Tesla

There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's…

— Carlos Castaneda

Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent…

— Joe Robert Cole

The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama,…

— Neil Marshall

Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day…

— Emily Giffin

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening…

— Rob Sheffield

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which…

— Margaret Anderson

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

— Stephen Gardiner

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

— Robert Smithson

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

— Terry Pratchett

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but…

— Steve Young

I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

— Rachel Joyce

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

— Sonia Sotomayor

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

— John Wooden

I hate the idea of owning a gun, but I love the idea of owning a cannon.

— Daniel Tosh

If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any…

— Hunter S. Thompson

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.

— Susie Wolff

I've always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.

— Julia Stiles

“If there are people in your organization who feel they are not free to suggest ideas, you lose.”

— Ed Catmull

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

— Jean-Luc Godard

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer…

— Daniel Kahneman