Ideas Quotes · Page 161

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into…

— John Waters

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

— Eric Metaxas

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

— Carl Jung

I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people;…

— Maiwenn

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not…

— Mark Twain

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.

— William McFee

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until…

— Andy Cohen

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story,…

— Simon McBurney

I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna…

— Melanie Martinez

The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If…

— Frederick Lenz

I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're…

— Chris Hardwick

We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One…

— Wangechi Mutu

“A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing…

— Anonymous

Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible…

— Jenna Black

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global…

— Richard A. Falk

I remember being young and people passing me things under the bathroom to sign, like under the stall. Like adults. We were…

— Jodi Sweetin

Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing…

— Walt Disney

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly…

— George Santayana

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

— Giles Foden

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

— Frederick Lenz

I am quick to adopt new ideas. If there is something good, I will follow it and implement it. I adopted information…

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

— Mike Mills

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

— Ian Hacking

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that…

— Win Butler

I am planning to start my own production house and am keen on exploring some new ideas.

— Tisca Chopra

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

— Lee Iacocca

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

— Bill T. Jones

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

— Stephen Sondheim

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

— H. L. Mencken

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

— Bob Goff

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

— Richard Linklater

As a kid, I was obsessed with 'Calvin and Hobbes' and 'Bone,' and I'm certain that I've unconsciously ripped off ideas from…

— Alex Hirsch

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

— Steven Rattner

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

— Daryl Hannah