Ideas Quotes · Page 250

“So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.”

— Stacey Kade

“It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.”

— Bryant McGill

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

— Florence Welch

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

— Thomas Merton

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

— Bethany Cosentino

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad…

— Paul Conrad

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

— Elizabeth Diller

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

— Myles Munroe

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something…

— J. G. Ballard

It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is…

— Josh Kopelman

My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can…

— Jay Gould

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments.…

— Arnold Bennett

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way…

— Margaret Mead

I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.…

— Charles Darwin

I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant,…

— John F. Kennedy

My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right…

— Rachel Maddow

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar…

— Jim Henson

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this…

— Carl Jung

I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still…

— Pankaj Mishra

The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again…

— Michael Lewis

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and…

— Joshua Foer

I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it…

— Taj Burrow

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Keith Richards

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

— Jasper Johns

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

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