Ideas Quotes · Page 122

I hate the idea of owning a gun, but I love the idea of owning a cannon.

— Daniel Tosh

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

— John Wooden

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

— Sonia Sotomayor

I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

— Rachel Joyce

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but…

— Steve Young

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

— Terry Pratchett

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

— Robert Smithson

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

— Stephen Gardiner

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes,…

— Ronald Reagan

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life,…

— Isaac Todhunter

As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of…

— Sloane Crosley

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the…

— William Saroyan

I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be…

— Scott Adams

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation -…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World -…

— Swami Vivekananda

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and…

— Gerhard Richter

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to…

— Michael Winterbottom

I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the…

— Jeffrey Tucker

I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate…

— Madonna Ciccone

For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going…

— James Rollins

In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his…

— Aldo Leopold

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two…

— Gloria Steinem

... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making…

— Danny Glover

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which…

— Margaret Anderson

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

— David Ogilvy

I like the idea that we can contain our weirdness, but I prefer it when we wear it all over ourselves.

— Kelly Oxford

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

— Anonymous

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad…

— Michael Moorcock

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

— Josh Billings

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

— Ed Miliband

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

— Kedar Joshi

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

— Kate Smith

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

— Erin Gruwell

“when people come up with new ideas, they have to have confidence in themselve to say " i can do it ”

— Ellen Sabin

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take…

— Romain Rolland

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

— Charlie Munger

Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.

— Cory Arcangel

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

— Edward Snowden