Ideas Quotes · Page 225

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

— Bo Burnham

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the…

— Madeleine Peyroux

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than…

— John Maynard Keynes

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion.

— Jaime King

From the moment I stepped into this industry, I've always had to fight for my ideas and for my voice to be…

— Charli XCX

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with…

— Dallas Willard

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

— Edward Bond

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people…

— Albert Camus

I think it's really important to create structures and formats within my videos; things I can to return to later on. It's…

— Joe Sugg

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth…

— Ann Coulter

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was…

— John Dieterich

If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products…

— David Harsanyi

[Ideas] may not arrive exactly on time, it may not be the most convenient thing for you. For me that happens a…

— Jon Fratelli

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

“This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays,…

— Siri Hustvedt

My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before,…

— Rachael MacFarlane

For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out,…

— Whit Stillman

There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved…

— Zaha Hadid

It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a…

— Cecil Balmond

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for…

— Matthew Hussey

There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their…

— Ken Robinson

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our…

— Frank Herbert

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

— Lulu Guinness

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

— Clare Wright

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

— Rory Stewart

Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.

— Fiona Barton

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

— Dallas Willard

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

— Andy Cohen

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

— Maximilien Robespierre

I think that vampires are sexy. The idea of them being untouchable has been really exciting for people.

— Jenn Proske

I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

— Megan Mullally

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when…

— Sasha Grey

Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

— John Day

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no…

— Alexa Ray Joel

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

— Jeremy Larner