Ideas Quotes · Page 270

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

— Stephen King

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior…

— Wyndham Lewis

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

— Brent Scowcroft

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

— Edwin Land

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

— Hillary Clinton

Division stifles progress and prevents good ideas - no matter their source - from being heard and considered.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

— Robert Breault

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football…

— Morris Chestnut

As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth…

— David Ignatius

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what…

— Chuck Mangione

People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea…

— Christopher Reeve

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate…

— Steve Burns

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die…

— Andrea Bocelli

Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who…

— Adolf Hitler

Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation…

— Terry Goodkind

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently…

— John Ambrose Fleming

My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends,…

— Tenzin Palmo

I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just…

— Quentin Tarantino

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role.…

— Jacques Chirac

There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so…

— Milton William Cooper

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not…

— Hayao Miyazaki

The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because…

— Nick Lowe

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

— Pythagoras

Every makeup artist or stylist with whom I work has many special ideas, tips, and creations. I can always learn so much…

— Liu Wen

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

— Bruce Nash

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion…

— Alfred Binet

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

— George Weinberg

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

— Sarah Bernhardt

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

— Bill Crawford

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

— Denise Morrison

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

— David Mamet

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

— Bubba Watson

I believe in classic ideas. They are timeless. They are forever. There are many fads in management.

— Michael J. Silverstein

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.

— Misha Collins

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

— Al Gore

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

— Steve Henry