Ideas Quotes · Page 230

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both…

— C. S. Lewis

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

— Gustav Mahler

I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.

— Terence Winter

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.

— L. Ron Hubbard

We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect…

— Paulo Coelho

“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies…

— Ellen Hopkins

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of…

— Jasper Johns

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

— Keith Richards

Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that…

— Erich Fromm

Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets…

— Caroline Ghosn

Our nation was founded on the idea that protecting citizens' speech from the government would protect the people's right to govern themselves…

— Bill Hagerty

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and…

— Morley Safer

I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes…

— Amy Schumer

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't…

— Janet Jackson

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional…

— Matt Taibbi

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I…

— Charles Bukowski

We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the…

— Cesar Chavez

The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have such a witness in my spirit that God is releasing entrepreneur giftings. He is and you might be receiving one.…

— Patricia King

Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies…

— Ina May Gaskin

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and…

— Jonathan Kozol

Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the…

— Vaclav Klaus

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from…

— Gregory David Roberts

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

— John Green

The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.

— Clark Kerr

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

— Garry Wills

“Some ideas are like terrible storms; like a nightmare, they haunt a country or an epoch and destroy everything there!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

— Billy Corgan

I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

— Philip K. Dick

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

— Ahmet Zappa

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

— Renzo Piano

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to…

— Rene Auberjonois

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

— Michael Rosenbaum

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

— Alan Watts

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them…

— Jane Nelsen

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

— Mose Allison

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

— Diane Kruger