Ideas Quotes · Page 237

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be…

— George Berkeley

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was…

— T. J. Stiles

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then…

— Andy Stern

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

— Yochai Benkler

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

— Vaclav Havel

I loved working with Cena. He was always receptive to my ideas, even if they weren't good.

— The Great Khali

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

— Ayn Rand

I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are…

— Terence McKenna

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are…

— Haruki Murakami

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of…

— Anne Sweeney

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have…

— Robert Rauschenberg

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with…

— Eric Kripke

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and…

— Jena Malone

I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways,…

— Jane Levy

Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down…

— William Butler Yeats

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were…

— Ellen Willis

Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or…

— Robert Moss

Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just…

— Barack Obama

The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be…

— Alex Gibney

Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear…

— Joan Didion

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who…

— Bill Ayers

I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn…

— William J. Clinton

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

— Lucinda Williams

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against…

— Judy Davis

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until…

— Charles Pelly

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own…

— Stephen Daldry

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

— Madonna Ciccone

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with…

— William Blake

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

— George Bernard Shaw

I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into…

— Mae Jemison

I want to come up with lots of weird and wonderful ideas and pieces of work and share them with the people…

— Joe Sugg

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

— Pearl S. Buck

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated…

— Shang Yang

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

— Bill Maher

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

— Thomas Steven Molnar

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to…

— Judy Blume