Ideas Quotes · Page 303

Johnny Andrews can make me fly with his ideas for new songs. It has always been a pure pleasure to write with…

— Tarja Turunen

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

— Umberto Eco

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

— George Eliot

Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.

— Jay Leno

My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

— Lapo Elkann

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

— James A. Garfield

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good…

— Alex Gansa

Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

— Jim Rohn

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show…

— Sarah Paulson

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't…

— Richard P. Feynman

You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars.…

— Moby

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a…

— Andy Warhol

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to…

— Steven Soderbergh

The primary purpose of the Electoral College is to maintain the power of the states and to support the idea that the…

— Rush Limbaugh

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the…

— Philip Pullman

But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just…

— P. G. Wodehouse

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from…

— John Updike

We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who…

— Jilly Cooper

“I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean…I had…

— Annie Dillard

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon…

— Fay Weldon

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid…

— Robert Kennedy

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way…

— Barbara Hurd

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or…

— Shunryu Suzuki

You have no idea how to dance, do you?” Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. “I’m a mechanic.

— Marissa Meyer

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

— Matt Mullenweg

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and…

— George Polya

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

— Ricki Lake

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.

— Ray Lyman Wilbur

Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will…

— Ernest Holmes

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly…

— Evelyn Waugh

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

— Steven Soderbergh

Great ideas are a dime a dozen.Its the few who make their ideas real who move the world forward.

— Anonymous

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

— Sam Altman

There's this amazing dialogue between me and my fans. There's an interest in the sharing of intellectual ideas based around art.

— Matty Healy

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

— Watchman Nee

If I want to get my ideas out, I have to be involved in the mechanism that the world is ran by.

— Boots Riley