Ideas Quotes · Page 277

I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.

— Madchen Amick

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

— Lola Kirke

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

— Hilary Mantel

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“I didn’t have a good idea, but I had an idea. Which would be a fitting quote on my tombstone.”

— B.C. Johnson

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

— Jane Smiley

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of…

— Don Cheadle

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE…

— David Lynch

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it…

— Barney Frank

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in…

— Patrick Stump

We have to sell conservatism to non-conservatives. We have to take our principles and apply them to problems and go sell them…

— Paul Ryan

I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I…

— Zachary Cole Smith

In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

When we're putting out records that people are responding to, it's amazing. And it's obviously what we shoot for every time. It's…

— El-P

A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image…

— Anonymous

I have no life! People always ask me, "What time do you check in and out?" But, the truth is, you never…

— Jeremiah Brent

There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based…

— Dan Crenshaw

I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are…

— Kathleen Edwards

Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If I'm creating a new superhero, it shouldn't be any different from other superheroes in terms of the qualities. Obviously the personality…

— Mark Millar

When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions…

— Julia Stiles

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an…

— Brene Brown

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

— China Mieville

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your…

— Malcolm Morley

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at…

— Brian Eno

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

— David Bowie

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

— Anonymous

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

— Andre Gide

I'm always up for playing around with fashion and I'm quite open to new ideas and experimenting.

— Vick Hope

I've got loads of ideas swimming round, and I've even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.

— Peter Kay

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

— Charles H. Townes

The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.

— Bob Burg

Ideas are always the source of the work. The form needs to emerge from the idea, not be top-down.

— RaMell Ross

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

— Andrew Tobias

When an idea bites you in your sleep every night for a year, its time to get out of bed.

— Anonymous

“One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.”

— Richard J. Borden

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently,

— Tony Scott