Ideas Quotes · Page 301

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse…

— Denis Leary

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the…

— Maria Montessori

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

— Steve Allen

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

— Martha Stewart

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

— Henry Latham Doherty

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

— Tom Stoppard

I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

— Larry Wilmore

Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.

— Kai Greene

For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and…

— Jay Roach

I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as…

— Alice Lowe

There should be no place for terrorism and extremist ideas in post-ISIS Iraq. We must join forces in building our country; we…

— Nadia Murad

We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it…

— Deeyah Khan

Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper…

— Watchman Nee

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas…

— Penn Jillette

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations…

— Jo Beverley

I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to…

— Charlie Munger

Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of…

— Charles Hartshorne

Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would…

— Dennis Etchison

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out.…

— Paul McCartney

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between…

— Clifford Stoll

The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls.…

— Bette Midler

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing…

— Kelly Clarkson

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

— Brian De Palma

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not…

— Clay Aiken

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

— Simon Sinek

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for…

— Reid Hoffman

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

— Huey Newton

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

— Orson Welles

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling…

— Vashti Bunyan

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

— Julian Huxley

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea…

— Rakim

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

— James Earl Jones

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

— Ted Alexandro

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me…

— George Strait

You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea.

— Masahiro Sakurai

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

— Anonymous

I feel like, with Taylor's albums, they have to marinate for a month for you to really get all the lyrics and…

— Carl Nassib

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

— Christian Louboutin