Ideas Quotes · Page 179

I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.

— Tommy Chong

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun…

— Harper Lee

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

— Thomas A. Edison

It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel…

— Allen W. Wood

As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one.

— Roger Enrico

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

— Jack McDevitt

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of…

— Jay Roach

What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the…

— Sai Baba

Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost…

— Charles Lindbergh

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame…

— John Taylor Gatto

It seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and…

— Joss Whedon

Providing individuals with multiple pathways and resources to find work or foster ideas that both create jobs and address social challenges can…

— Tae Yoo

The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get…

— Frederick Lenz

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage…

— Douglas Coupland

You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was…

— Stefan Molyneux

The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we…

— Chogyam Trungpa

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from…

— Ann Patchett

There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have…

— Otto Weininger

Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of…

— Charles Hartshorne

I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good…

— Ben Affleck

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas…

— Jonathan Nolan

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

— Rashida Jones

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

— Neri Oxman

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents…

— Henry Winkler

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother…

— Isabel Colegate

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

— William Feather

I don't like to cook by recipe. I like being original, trying out ideas, putting together my own dishes.

— Judy Norton

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

— Jonathan Tucker

I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this…

— Hilary Kornblith

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.

— Thom Yorke

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

— Tina Weymouth

Life is just a war of ideas everything else belongs in the toilet. This universe seems to be thought driven.

— Jeremy Limn

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on…

— Dale Carnegie

It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.

— Albert Einstein

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

— Bill Ayers

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I…

— Nicholas Royle

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

— Dennis Hopper