Ideas Quotes · Page 169

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

— Patricia McCormick

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

— Curtis Joseph

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

— Kabir Sehgal

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

— Li Ka-shing

The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you…

— George Harrison

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

— Judy Blume

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

— Dan Brown

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five…

— Gillian Jacobs

I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the…

— Ice Cube

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength…

— George Eliot

Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen…

— Robin Hobb

Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take,…

— Jillian Michaels

We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly,…

— Michael Barone

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture…

— Howard Shore

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just…

— Adrienne Rich

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to…

— Corrie Ten Boom

I was fortunately able to avoid getting into any trouble with police. There was - I remember I was 12, and I…

— Mahershala Ali

Quantum healing is healing the bodymind from a quantum level. That means from a level which is not manifest at a sensory…

— Deepak Chopra

On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time…

— Edward Condon

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way…

— Barbara Hurd

The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls.…

— Bette Midler

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out.…

— Paul McCartney

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between…

— Clifford Stoll

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

— Thomas Paine

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

— Ross Douthat

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

— Randal Kleiser

When a movie is made, you toy with many ideas, and a prequel to 'Dabangg' is one of them.

— Arbaaz Khan

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

— Lois Ehlert

I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of…

— Bam Margera

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

— Bill Moyers

I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though…

— Tim Winton

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at…

— Daniel Kahneman

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

— John Amos

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me…

— Melina Marchetta

Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

— Oprah Winfrey

“Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Haiku: Some will steal your thoughts Right out of your mouth as you Speak them in private.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short…

— Andrew Davidson