Ideas Quotes · Page 184

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the…

— Jeff Melvoin

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

— Elaine Stritch

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on…

— William Hazlitt

“I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.”

— Bauvard

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

— Robert Stromberg

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

— Nicholas Royle

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band…

— Robert Crumb

I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get…

— Jim McDermott

If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and…

— Paula Deen

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up…

— Brian Ulrich

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing…

— Burton Richter

My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my…

— Rufus Sewell

Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their…

— Mark Cuban

I had a girls' writing retreat at my condo and a bunch of other female writers came down. Me and two other…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . .…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to…

— David Lynch

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain…

— Bertrand Russell

The idea of racial inferiority or superiority is foreign to me. I can't feel inferior or superior to another man because of…

— Charles Lindbergh

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been…

— William Goldman

One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go…

— Malcolm Mclaren

“The Best Things In Life Aren't So Sweet But Their Results Are Sweeter!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang…

— David Lowery

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

— Christopher Nolan

When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.

— Margrethe Vestager

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

— Saul Williams

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

— Rene Huyghe

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Sometimes, your ideas aren’t as good as you think. Other times, the world just isn’t ready for them.”

— Jeff Goins

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a…

— Nikki Giovanni

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

— Ameen Rihani

If you are trying to sell someone your idea and you can't even define it to yourself, then that is a problem.

— Garance Dore

Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

— Joel Greenblatt

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

— Jean Monnet

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

— Robin Williams

I think that what London wants are people with ideas and the willpower to get things through.

— Sol Campbell

When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change.

— Lulu Wang