Ideas Quotes · Page 256

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the…

— David Rosenfelt

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and…

— Bill de Blasio

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

— Scott Adams

Some conservatives are traditionalists, and the idea of breaking things up and changing things is concerning to them at times.

— Matt Schlapp

Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

— Phillip Lim

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

— Daniel Kahneman

I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I…

— Tim Rutili

Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive…

— Bob Herbold

Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such…

— J. G. Farrell

Comrade Kim Jong Il energetically led the work of defending and honouring Comrade Kim Il Sung's ideas of and exploits in the…

— Kim Jong-un

the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will…

— Zeno Vendler

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what…

— Lance Armstrong

For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All right. I will be a man about this…I’m so sorry Bets. I should have hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement,…

— Michael E. Mann

On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city…

— Raymond Williams

It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I…

— Ethan Hawke

You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment…

— David Eagleman

I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned,…

— Jim Butcher

To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and…

— William Matthews

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

— Ramana Maharshi

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

— Nancy Sinatra

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

The idea that any president represents the world, by definition the United States must be diminished for that to happen.

— Rush Limbaugh

We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every…

— Chanda Kochhar

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing…

— Aldous Huxley

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

— Steve Jobs

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

— Jessica Ennis

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good…

— Grace Slick

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

— Amy Johnson

What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort.

— Debra Hamel

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

— Paul Virilio

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

— Barack Obama

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

— Norman Tebbit

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

— George MacKay