Ideas Quotes · Page 306

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

— Tom Robbins

A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don't have the money to do it.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

For far too long, the abortion debate has been about political advocacy, not ideas.

— Norah Vincent

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

— Sean Lennon

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.

— Bill Hicks

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.

— Walter Lippmann

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

— Susan Neiman

“Business ideas are like human reproduction – they never cease to be birthed as long as there is constant interaction between the…

— Victor Kwegyir

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend…

— Albert Bandura

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound…

— Henry Van Dyke

If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land,…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind…

— Lisa Gansky

I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt.…

— Ann Friedman

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm…

— Dontrelle Willis

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that…

— Edward de Bono

We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries…

— Chris Alexander

When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking…

— Tim Wu

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Of course there are many films about the period of Fascism itself but I don't know of any about that period beforehand.…

— Michael Haneke

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such…

— Francoise Sagan

“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.

— Ximenes Doudan

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

— Juliana Hatfield

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country…

— David Crosby

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the…

— Jessa Crispin

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it…

— Robin Williams

The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

— Tony Blair

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

— John Locke

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on…

— Charles Stross

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

— Fred Ritchin

Some of the best times are training camp and getting your ideas in how you'd like them.

— Mike D'Antoni

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

— Meret Oppenheim

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable…

— Jeffrey Kluger

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

— Ewan McGregor

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the…

— David Foster Wallace