Ideas Quotes · Page 238

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

— Donald Miller

I'm used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.

— Tim Armstrong

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

— Albert Einstein

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

— Virginia Woolf

My confidence has been growing, and I've been really letting my ideas come out.

— Ruel

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't…

— Andy Rooney

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the…

— Winston Churchill

When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is yourself.

— Phylicia Rashad

“It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and…

— Karen Cushman

I also think regime change in Syria is a bad idea. And that's an ongoing question. It's one of the things I…

— Rand Paul

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same…

— Kathy Bates

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.…

— Avi

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and…

— Jason Reitman

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will…

— Noah Webster

I don't have a nightlife. People say, "You need these cocktail dresses for all the receptions" - except I don't go, because…

— Nancy Pelosi

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing…

— Dorothy Allison

Being in New York for 10 days during the World Series and appearing on a bunch of shows, I felt like it…

— Jessica Mendoza

It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along…

— Charlyne Yi

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what…

— Melissa Rosenberg

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more…

— Anonymous

The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated…

— Dean Kamen

I turn on the machines and start to think about ideas and take it from there, it usually begins if it's a…

— Mick Harris

Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so...…

— Bill Gates

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now…

— John Darnielle

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when…

— Robbie Robertson

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

— James Mercer

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the…

— R. L. Stine

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

— Rudy VanderLans

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

— Eric Hoffer

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a…

— Jean Chatzky

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

— Ambrose Bierce

“No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.”

— Merilyn Simonds

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to…

— Ziggy Marley

“Don't look at things and wonder why; but dream new ideas and say why not?”

— R. Stanton Tucker

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

— Jim DeMint

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

— Jean-Louis Trintignant

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

— David Rabe

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell