Ideas Quotes · Page 198

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them…

— Jane Nelsen

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

— Myles Munroe

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

— Elizabeth Diller

I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it…

— Taj Burrow

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad…

— Paul Conrad

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

— Bethany Cosentino

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

— Florence Welch

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

— Thomas Merton

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just…

— Graham Parker

The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of…

— Jimmy Fallon

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or…

— James McGreevey

Income splitting is a cynical policy, designed by a tired government short on ideas, now reheating old concoctions as their next campaign…

— Justin Trudeau

I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I…

— Mitt Romney

I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The…

— Judd Apatow

Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the…

— Ibn Warraq

When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want…

— Tod Machover

It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and…

— David Lehman

Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature,…

— John Dewey

Adults use children in order to survive because now, we have this [kids] tissue that can allow us to live longer. And…

— Greg Gutfeld

I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I…

— Morgan Freeman

In a Bloomberg poll, 88% of respondents said that Wall Street bonuses should either be banned outright or taxed at 50%. Just…

— Felix Salmon

The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing…

— Lynn Margulis

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern…

— Joseph Campbell

We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect…

— Paulo Coelho

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.

— L. Ron Hubbard

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

— Keith Richards

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of…

— Jasper Johns

“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies…

— Ellen Hopkins

I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.

— Terence Winter

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

— Gustav Mahler

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both…

— C. S. Lewis

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all…

— Napoleon Hill

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.

— Haruki Murakami

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

— Bruce Nash

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

— Marty Neumeier

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea…

— Mary Ellen Chase

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

— Neil Farber