Ideas Quotes · Page 231

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible…

— Romola Garai

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

— Nitin Sawhney

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

— Anthony Kiedis

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

— Dane Cook

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

— Roman Baldorioty de Castro

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

— Samantha Mathis

I usually have two or three ideas floating around. When I have free time, the one I end up thinking most about…

— Colson Whitehead

We may have our own ideas in the writing and editing stages, but we work out those disagreements in a constructive way.

— Ryan Fleck

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along…

— Ani DiFranco

I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we…

— Marietta Holley

I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and…

— Catherine Wilson

While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and…

— Jonathan Haidt

When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved…

— Emma Forrest

For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly…

— Nicholas Ozeki

I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas. Whoever chooses…

— M. Ward

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going…

— Francis Ford Coppola

my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must…

— Andre Dubus

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…

— Anne Fadiman

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances…

— Paul Wolfowitz

There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests.…

— Amy Chua

The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father…

— Henrik Ibsen

One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up…

— Elif Batuman

If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let…

— Amitabh Bachchan

I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

— Shepard Fairey

The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.

— Vir Das

I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.

— Karen Marie Moning

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

t's not that I'm particularly shy but I just don't like the idea of publicising myself as a 'celebrity'.

— Skandar Keynes

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

— Shunryu Suzuki

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

— Svetlana Alexievich

On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the…

— Virchand Gandhi

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

— Samuel West

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

— Abigail Johnson

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

— Garry Winogrand

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

— Andy Partridge

Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity.

— Patricia Field