Ideas Quotes · Page 214

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

— Joseph Brodsky

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library:…

— Mo Willems

I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.

— Ed Droste

Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.

— Dan Levy

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

— Richard Steele

The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.

— Theresa May

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

— John Gimlette

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside…

— Viola Davis

Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House…

— Andrew P. Harris

It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall…

— Terry Pratchett

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such…

— John Dewey

Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline…

— Caroline Polachek

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six…

— Chris Brown

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of…

— Theodor Adorno

Everyone is using the same programs, everyone is looking at the same opening ideas. I wouldn't say everyone is necessarily the same…

— Hikaru Nakamura

All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who…

— Jim Rohn

Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You’re not supposed to…

— George Hamilton

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words…

— James Fenton

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a…

— Neill Blomkamp

Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I…

— Hilary Kornblith

I've had moments where I didn't hit the ball very good coming in, and you've got to turn it around. That's the…

— Tiger Woods

I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my…

— Linus Pauling

Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by…

— Grenville Kleiser

It's sad to have to leave your family but I like the idea of someone believing in something so strongly that are…

— Zoe Kravitz

“Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.”

— P.W. Cross

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

— Karl Lagerfeld

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

— Michael R. Burch

I had one idea that never changed in my mind—that you should use your wealth to help people.

— Chuck Feeney

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

— Chuck Martin

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

— Ewan McGregor

I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

— Kehinde Wiley

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of…

— Frederick Lenz

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

— Libba Bray

I'm an actor so I've been pursuing movies and I have some TV series ideas to pitch too.

— Lucas Cruikshank

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

— Mark Rubinstein

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

— Rob Bell

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

— Charles Kettering

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as…

— Jim DeMint