Ideas Quotes · Page 310

In the past women have preconceived ideas about me and I didn't know anything about them.

— James Bowen

I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.

— Chris Cosentino

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

— Louise Rennison

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

— Voltaire

Just heard who made who by ac/dc and asked a ry what movie? He had no idea. Disappointed. He will be doing…

— The Miz

Frankly our government has no idea what they're doing on many, many fronts, folks.

— Donald Trump

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

— William J. Duiker

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

— Max Boot

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father…

— Rick Riordan

I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was…

— Van Morrison

I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,…

— Walter Savage Landor

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the…

— Booker T. Washington

I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John…

— George Harrison

To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody…

— Anonymous

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the…

— Toby Young

We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971.…

— David Bowie

For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right…

— Simon Sinek

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were…

— Charles Dickens

I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but…

— Jim Jarmusch

Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,…

— Carl Jung

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

— Amit Goswami

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

— Dorothy Nevill

My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box...

— Massad Ayoob

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

— Adam Smith

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

— Shane Black

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.

— Diana Vreeland

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

— Anonymous

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

— Richard Rorty

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a…

— Hilary Swank

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

— Friedrich Schiller

“Ideas are like legs: what good are they if you can't run with them, or spread them?”

— Jarod Kintz

“Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.”

— Semen Frank

The idea of inclusion has become kind of a stone that we've passed our hand over so many times that it doesn't…

— George Saunders

It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no…

— Seth Rogen

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

— Yo-Yo Ma