Ideas Quotes · Page 327

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

— Ellen Hopkins

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

— Alexander H. Stephens

I think people see me as authentic, just like I am, with my ideas, my style of doing politics.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence…

— Constantin Brancusi

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

— Raymond Williams

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

— Freida Pinto

Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences.

— David Olusoga

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

— John B. S. Haldane

I'm always thinking about story, and the development of ideas or images, so with all types of media, I'm simply trying to…

— Dave McKean

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

— James Joseph Sylvester

Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if…

— Yuri Orlov

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a…

— Leon Krier

Hillary Clinton's record in office is dreadful. Her ideas are dreadful. They will make us less safe. So, but there is no…

— Bret Stephens

Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and…

— Vannevar Bush

“In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in…

— Bruce Boxleitner

If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to),…

— Seth Godin

The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or…

— Adolf Hitler

I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people…

— Mindy Kaling

I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was…

— Nicholson Baker

The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in…

— Dan Rather

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot…

— Robert Harris

I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading…

— Johnny Carson

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

— John Maynard Keynes

“Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my…

— James Patterson

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, because I am still looking for ideas.

— Anonymous

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.

— Emile Coue

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

— George Santayana

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with…

— Richard Gere

I love talking to people, and I'll listen to what they have to say, and if they have ideas or something like…

— John 5

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

— Amy Vanderbilt

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

— Abdul Kalam

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

— Peter Drucker

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

— Jon Brion

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

— Ashton Kutcher

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

— David Heinemeier Hansson