Ideas Quotes · Page 149

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

— Madonna Ciccone

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

— John Lydon

I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make…

— Vivienne Westwood

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

— Nancy Gibbs

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

— Mitch Horowitz

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

— Gordon S. Wood

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

— David Letterman

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should…

— Sophia Loren

Today the United States has admitted that after months and months of searching, we still have no idea where Osama bin Laden…

— Jay Leno

I feel like I have a little bit of a fresh ear when creating music. I'm not trying to be like anything…

— Katy Perry

The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds…

— Bill Nye

If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of…

— Tony Robbins

I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether…

— Lucille Clifton

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap…

— Jonathan Alter

When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because…

— Lynne Tillman

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were…

— Ellen Willis

I think it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried…

— Arvind Ethan David

So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the…

— Edith Hamilton

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems…

— Douglas Adams

First of all, I really appreciate what I've got and I know that we're all sort of on borrowed time. I think…

— Dr. Luke

An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything…

— Maimonides

I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you…

— Jonah Peretti

There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by…

— Marlene Caroselli

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

— Peter Zumthor

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

— Judd Apatow

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

— Mark Rylance

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

— Mark Kingwell

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

— Emile M. Cioran

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

— Marty Neumeier

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to…

— Noma Bar

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

— Lord Byron

I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking…

— Charli XCX

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

— Marshall Cook

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

— John Poindexter

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as…

— Adnan Sami

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

— Harold Bloom

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

— Thomas A. Edison

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.

— Justine Larbalestier

If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a…

— Robert Ardrey