Ideas Quotes · Page 253

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

— Marcel Duchamp

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

— Andy Cohen

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

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

— Maximilien Robespierre

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

Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known…

— David Bohm

Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even…

— Amanda Marcotte

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that…

— June Diane Raphael

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas…

— Brian Chesky

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of…

— Gloria Steinem

The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas…

— Robert Grudin

After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but…

— Douglas Gwyn

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is…

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the…

— Kenneth Branagh

The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access…

— Robert G. Vosper

Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for…

— Maya Angelou

To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I…

— Salman Rushdie

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take…

— Manika

I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how…

— Andy Wilkinson

You know you're ready to write a book when you have a feeling that you should do it, no matter what anybody…

— Guy Kawasaki

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

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

— Frank Herbert

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

— Dallas Willard

I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.

— Reggie Watts

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

— Gladys Taber

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

— Matt Kibbe

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

— Carl Jung

I have no idea how to do what you're supposed to do. I do a little bit of humming.

— Martina Sorbara

I don't want to be part of ideas which are regressive and put us on the back foot.

— Shweta Tripathi

Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed.

— Brian Wong

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

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

— Bo Burnham

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

— Gene Simmons

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be…

— Scott McCloud

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

— Thomas Ehrlich