Ideas Quotes · Page 129

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

— Ted Koppel

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

— Brian K. Vaughan

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

— Eric Clapton

I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.

— Joe Goddard

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

— Joan Didion

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has…

— Lawrence Durrell

We're not just limited by technology but by our ideas and our experimentation and how quickly we can try things.

— Tim Sweeney

I have a million funny ideas for sketches, but I don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars shooting them.

— Gavin McInnes

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

— Bill Ayers

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

— Donald Lambert

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they…

— John Cleese

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.

— Maggie Stiefvater

If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.

— Pramila Jayapal

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

— Kehinde Wiley

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains…

— Tom Peters

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

— Max Carver

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state…

— Frederick Lenz

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.

— Dan Crenshaw

I really kind of pride myself on figuring stuff out pretty quickly but I couldn't, couldn't. I just had no idea.

— Jennifer Aniston

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down…

— Abraham Lincoln

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

— Beatrice Warde

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into…

— Bernard Arnault

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

— Hector Berlioz

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

— Alan Moore

I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it…

— Gold Panda

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.

— Justin Welby

The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new…

— Henry Mancini

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

— Seth

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

— Boyd K. Packer

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

— Soichiro Honda

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

— Shannon Lee

It hurts when people do not share in the same idea with you, but the most important thing is your believe in…

— Terry Mark

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

— Lazaro Hernandez