Ideas Quotes · Page 173

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

— Tarsem Singh

“Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives; words and ideas change the world.”

— Bryant McGill

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future…

— Victoria Moran

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you…

— Freddie Gibbs

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

— Jack Kingston

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

— John D. Rockefeller

We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up…

— Niall Horan

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of…

— Erica Jong

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their…

— Mike Patton

I went through a bad period where I was just not writing; I couldn't create anything. I was out of ideas. But…

— Allan Holdsworth

Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a…

— David Letterman

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to…

— Beck

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book,…

— Dan Mangan

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed…

— Anatol Rapoport

My Cop Stopper was a Pokémon ball that you push the button and then Tesla's coils go in and the chemical compound…

— Kellan Lutz

Really? Screaming?” He shrugged. “It wasn’t that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the…

— Sarah Dessen

I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always…

— Michel Gondry

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that…

— Edward de Bono

Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink…

— Brenda Ueland

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at…

— Alfred Binet

I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to;…

— Frederick Douglass

While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these…

— Robbie Robertson

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

— Susan B. Anthony

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

— Isabel Allende

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

— Ken Loach

Netflix is looking for interesting ideas from interesting creators. They really want to help me make the show I want to make.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and…

— Henry Rollins

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the…

— Paulo Coelho

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

— Jeanette Winterson

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

— Theodor Reik

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

— Daniel H. Pink

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

— Barack Obama

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

— William Hull

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself…

— Rachel Simmons

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

— Zoe Lister-Jones