Ideas Quotes · Page 259

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

— Hans Hofmann

I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy…

— Robin S. Sharma

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

— Jonathan Sacks

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

— Lea Michele

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

— Samuel Butler

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front…

— Warwick Davis

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look…

— Ani DiFranco

I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which…

— Robert Barry

It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and…

— Norman Dodd

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your…

— Glen Cook

A publication depends on a great idea, not there being a market out there. You start with an idea rather than trying…

— Andrew Heiskell

We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the…

— Milos Forman

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical…

— Philip Kitcher

We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of…

— Frederick Lenz

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads…

— Bill Nye

We have this idea in our mind that there's a separation of church and state in America, which I think is a…

— Stephen Colbert

But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than…

— George MacDonald

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I…

— Claude Shannon

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will…

— Robin G. Collingwood

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but…

— Amber Heard

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with…

— Karl Marx

If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.

— Niall Horan

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

— Michael Crichton

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

— Michael Craig-Martin

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure…

— Joey Reiman

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a…

— Gloria Allred

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

— Theodore Parker

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

— Erik Larson

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

— Leo Tolstoy

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

— Edward Burtynsky

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

— Bob Cousy

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.

— Ferdinand Hodler

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of…

— Ewan McGregor

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

— Anthony Trollope

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

— Demetri Martin