Ideas Quotes · Page 145

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

— Paul McCartney

Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.

— Philip Carr-Gomm

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

— Jack Whitehall

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

— Donald Lambert

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

— Judy Holliday

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised…

— Edward Gibbon

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I am not that far apart from Jurgen Klopp in terms of our ideas about a style of football. That's no secret.

— Ralf Rangnick

I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children.…

— Val Kilmer

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures…

— Henry Morton Stanley

So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is…

— Garth Stein

It's not enough to speak loudly and confidently. You have to know how to get the world on your side, to accept…

— Tzipi Livni

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few…

— Emma Watson

Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that…

— Arthur Miller

The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas -…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie…

— Zadie Smith

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be…

— Margaret Atwood

It as an argument between the world of emotion versus the world of the intellect. It's the idea that you can suppress…

— Colin Farrell

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

I'm being accused of being a murderer! I'M being ACCUSED of being a molester!... They say my idea of a fun day…

— Al Snow

I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through…

— Bryan Fischer

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify…

— Dinesh D'Souza

I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white…

— Tony Kushner

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

— Emile Chartier

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

— Margaret Heffernan

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

— Raymond Barre

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

— William Gurstelle

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

— James Mark Baldwin

I consider myself to be a romantic person, and I love the idea of having a soul mate.

— Mandy Moore

I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.

— Hedi Slimane

“Discussing ideas can potentially increase the kinetic energy of ideas to a point where ideas turn into innovation.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.

— Kameron Hurley

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not…

— Leigh Newman

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I…

— John Darnielle

When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just…

— Howard Tayler

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

— Justin Welby

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

— C. S. Lewis

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