Ideas Quotes · Page 216

It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that…

— Susan Faludi

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

— Robert Darnton

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

— Raymond Geuss

I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

— Guido Westerwelle

Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you…

— Frederick Lenz

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea…

— Anonymous

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

— Barry Manilow

I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.

— Leroy Hood

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone…

— Pat Summitt

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others…

— John Brown

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year...…

— Anonymous

I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh,…

— Ezra Koenig

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger…

— Alfred Lin

Sometimes I like practicing, sometimes I don't. But I like the result... I hardly ever get discouraged. Maybe right when it's very…

— Hilary Hahn

I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates…

— Rupert Friend

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that…

— Lynne Cheney

Seattle's got a great work force, relatively low cost of starting a company, and just a really good, innovative entrepreneurial DNA. To…

— Dan Levitan

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under…

— E. B. White

Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one…

— David Starkey

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you,…

— Dale Carnegie

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey;…

— Tobias Smollett

The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and…

— Theodora Goss

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

— F. F. Bruce

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace…

— Merritt Wever

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at…

— Wallace Stevens

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

— Umberto Eco

I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

— Iggy Pop

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my…

— Tony Abbott

Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone.

— Mal Fletcher

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

— Anne Stevenson

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

— Euripides

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

— John Rawls

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

— Scott Belsky

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

— Zaha Hadid

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

— Daniel Dennett

I've farmed all my life and I have big ideas on how to grow agriculture jobs in West Virginia.

— Jim Justice