Ideas Quotes · Page 278

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

— Laura Prepon

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

— Barbara Kruger

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

— Richard Ford

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

— Tariq Ramadan

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

— Judy Greer

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

— Ronan Farrow

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming…

— Shirley Manson

I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock…

— Ian Astbury

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the…

— John Piper

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes…

— Trevor Baylis

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed…

— Noam Chomsky

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed,…

— Milton Friedman

I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my…

— JD Era

I have discovered there are only a handful of good ideas in the whole world. You already know them. You have heard…

— Larry Winget

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires…

— Dinesh D'Souza

To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to…

— Georges Cuvier

I think it's important for women to have a means to get health care. I think it's important that women have a…

— Shonda Rhimes

Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree…

— John Lydon

On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that…

— Fred Hoyle

Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization.…

— Teresa Amabile

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only…

— Calvin Coolidge

I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

— Evelyn Underhill

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

— Adam Rapp

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

— Larry David

When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

— Noam Chomsky

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in…

— Steve Harvey

It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made…

— Cassandra Clare

I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.

— Dara Wier

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make…

— Anonymous

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

— Daniel H. Pink

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

— Rivka Galchen

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You…

— Washed Out

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

— Andrew Mellon

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

— Bryan Fuller

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

— Paul Robeson

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

— Edward Snowden