Ideas Quotes · Page 245

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

— David Cronenberg

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things…

— George Gardner

Everything is possible your dreams your ideas your vision never let anyone tell you you can't.

— Aman Dhanda

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose…

— Sun Yat-sen

All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas.

— Paulo Coelho

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

— Timothy Findley

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool…

— Rodman Philbrick

“Ideas are the asexual reproduction of the mind. You don’t have to share them with anyone else.”

— Francesca Zappia

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by…

— Mark Twain

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking…

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena… But when they come to…

— Carl von Clausewitz

If you have an idea and I have an idea - then we EACH have JUST ONE idea...but if you share your…

— Mary Kay Ash

The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen…

— Eddie Van Halen

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems…

— Douglas Adams

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the…

— David Bohm

Abortion destroys self-worth and dignity. I bought into the idea that abortion was simply a matter of choice. I used abortion as…

— Star Parker

The idea behind it did come out of my love for travel shows. I loved them as a little kid and I…

— Ellen Page

I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many…

— Michael Koryta

Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the…

— Jacques Barzun

By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't…

— Michael Stipe

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about…

— John Van Hamersveld

Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple…

— Katherine Anne Porter

The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian…

— Cornel West

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our…

— Jim Harrison

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

— Charles Bukowski

As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

— Johnny Depp

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

— Steve Case

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a…

— Rory Gallagher

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with…

— Tom Waits

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

— Rob Sheffield

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

— Jeffrey Sachs

And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I…

— Lindsey Kelk

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

— Elvis Costello

I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.

— Tiger Woods

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

— Jennifer Aniston

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

— Seth Godin

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and…

— Janet Evanovich

“The web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the globe at the speed of light.”

— P.J. O'Rourke

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

— Hamilton Leithauser