Ideas Quotes · Page 158

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

— Grant Morrison

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

— Seth Rogen

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

— Antonia Fraser

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

— Anonymous

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

— Max Nordau

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

— Gordon Bell

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

— Hugh Kingsmill

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

— Victor Hugo

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives…

— Brian Eno

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can…

— Steven Johnson

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the…

— John Lydon

I love watching other beauty girls on YouTube, so I get a lot of ideas through their videos. I also get plenty…

— Zoe Sugg

Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One…

— Henry Ford

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must…

— Joseph Joubert

As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other…

— William Thurston

Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then…

— Rob Reiner

But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to…

— Stephen Kendrick

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we…

— Ronald Reagan

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that…

— Daphne du Maurier

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won…

— Julia Child

As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public…

— Lawrence Lessig

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts,…

— Deb Caletti

Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to…

— Walter Lippmann

Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.

— Chris Hayes

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

— Marc Veasey

I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

— Bear Bryant

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to…

— Gordon Brown

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

— Emma Watson

To steal ideas from one person, would be plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is called research.

— Anonymous

Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.

— Sara Genn

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

— Sam Altman

Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

— Akbar Ganji

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

— Brian Eno

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is…

— George R. R. Martin

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

— Jeremy Sisto

Selling through the internet seems to be a very good idea. There are a million areas that we can go to.

— Jeremy Clarkson

Don't get consumed by the false idea that being a woman is a disadvantage.

— Esra Saydam

I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love…

— Ethan Hawke