Ideas Quotes · Page 293

I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.

— George Carlin

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I…

— Willem Dafoe

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

— Adam Grant

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

— Zadie Smith

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

— Matthew Vaughn

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always…

— Jim Goad

We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander…

— Michael Cunningham

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in…

— Patrick Stump

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it…

— Barney Frank

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,…

— Henry Miller

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education…

— Stephen Downes

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before -…

— Lennart Nilsson

I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is…

— Max Tundra

It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just…

— Zadie Smith

I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there.…

— Charles Krauthammer

Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are…

— Kathleen Edwards

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes,…

— Joshua Ferris

There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based…

— Dan Crenshaw

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been…

— Lena Headey

On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended…

— Rene Descartes

We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should…

— Victor Suarez Melendez

Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do…

— Bill Maher

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

— Hjalmar Schacht

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

— Anthony de Mello

Your idea may not be exactly God's idea, but I can promise you this: God's way will be better than your way.

— Joel Osteen

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

— Tom Robbins

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

— Robin Hobb

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

— Claude M. Bristol

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new…

— Orson Scott Card

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

— Antoine Rivarol

Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.

— Paul Dini

“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.”

— Thomas Hardy

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

— Howard Stringer

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

— Candace Bushnell

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

— Hannes Alfven

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

— Louis C. K

Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.

— Shiva Ayyadurai