Ideas Quotes · Page 128

I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

— Karl Rove

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

— Marcel Proust

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

— Tara VanDerveer

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

— Chris Van Allsburg

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

— Harold Bloom

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

— Frederick Lenz

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

— Tommy Tune

“Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

— John O'Donohue

I have always worn my heart on my sleeve and jumped head-first into ideas that excite me.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

— Ian Hacking

When a movie is made, you toy with many ideas, and a prequel to 'Dabangg' is one of them.

— Arbaaz Khan

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

— B. C. Forbes

“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”

— Tim Fargo

Our ideas of consent have evolved and changed because feminism has pushed the boundaries.

— Barkha Dutt

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

— Scott Belsky

I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about…

— Rachel Cusk

“What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that…

— Edouard Delacroix

We need fresh, new leadership with bold ideas and a new approach to get more people back to work with quality jobs…

— Scott Howell

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas…

— Michael Nesmith

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and…

— Jena Malone

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could -…

— Jerry Saltz

You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea…

— Richard Madden

I've learned the idea of pausing when agitated or doubtful. I can still write the e-mail but instead of sending that e-mail…

— John Feldmann

Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in…

— Rolf Dobelli

"Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw…

— Chris Ware

We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars"…

— Alfred Gough

If I were to remake a movie, I'd love to remake Halloween 3 Season of the Witch because even though it's a…

— Bryan Fuller

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking…

— Swami Vivekananda

Basically it's the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they're…

— Melanie Martinez

Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most…

— Martyn

It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.”

— P.W. Cross

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

— JR

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

— Louis C. K

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

— Mark Van Doren

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

— Deana Carter

Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

— David Ogilvy