Ideas Quotes · Page 272

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.

— Rob Manuel

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

— Vidal Sassoon

You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.

— Mike Patton

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a…

— Katherine Anne Porter

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

— Dan Quayle

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

— Anselm Kiefer

I don't know who came up with this push present idea, but I think it's probably a female.

— Josh Duhamel

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they…

— Warren Ellis

There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime…

— Rand Paul

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn…

— Salman Rushdie

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea…

— John Keats

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea…

— Matt Taibbi

There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films…

— Frank Capra

The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large…

— Lucy Larcom

People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless…

— Alexandra Cassavetes

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it…

— Anonymous

It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end.…

— Elizabeth Hawes

I don't mind being recognized, it's just that I have a bit of social anxiety, and this situation has increased it. The…

— Simon Helberg

I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across,…

— Elif Batuman

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they…

— Thomas Paine

You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in…

— will.i.am

I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use…

— Ellen Hopkins

“Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.”

— Lorii Myers

Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best…

— Julie Burchill

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

— Laurie Helgoe

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

— William McFee

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

— A. D. Gordon

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America….

— Utah Phillips

While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many…

— R. Keith Sawyer

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and…

— Nora Roberts

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the…

— James Hillman

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

— Jonah Goldberg

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

— Konrad Lorenz

Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.

— Statik Selektah

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

— Brett Dennen

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

— Rajneesh

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.

— Patti Smith