Ideas Quotes · Page 207

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

— Erik Larson

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

— Leo Tolstoy

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

— Bob Cousy

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

— Edward Burtynsky

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.

— Ferdinand Hodler

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

— Anthony Trollope

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than…

— Francois Mauriac

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral…

— Edward Zwick

There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds.…

— Pope Francis

I must admit that we have yet to understand how [Donald Trump] will develop his idea, his pledge to make America great…

— Vladimir Putin

We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for…

— Dallin H. Oaks

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged…

— Michael Musto

You need to have the same ideas to work as a team, to have a good team spirit. And you don't get…

— Xabi Alonso

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't…

— Robert K. Massie

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and…

— Alex Steffen

The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires…

— Brigid Brannagh

So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and…

— Kate DiCamillo

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature…

— Lawrence Wright

All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol,…

— Jean Pigozzi

Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK…

— Keanu Reeves

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of…

— Ewan McGregor

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

— Jasper Johns

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

— Oprah Winfrey

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

— Demetri Martin

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

— Bernard Crick

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

— Amy Lee

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest…

— Abel Hermant

We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability…

— Chris Murphy

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that…

— Steve Jobs

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

— James Salter

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better…

— Michel Gondry

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a…

— Wilferd Peterson

If you are working 24/7, you're not going to have any interesting ideas.

— Susan Wojcicki

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to…

— Anne Carson