Ideas Quotes · Page 297

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that…

— Win Butler

I am planning to start my own production house and am keen on exploring some new ideas.

— Tisca Chopra

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

— Lee Iacocca

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

— Bill T. Jones

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

— Stephen Sondheim

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

— Bob Goff

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

— Frederick Lenz

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they…

— George Eliot

The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There…

— Andrew Weil

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's…

— Gretchen Carlson

We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the…

— Anna Funder

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her!…

— Ernestine Rose

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at…

— Nelson Mandela

To me, I think we want an organization that's aligned. We want an organization that has the same vision. But we don't…

— Matt Rhule

I've always wanted to play with this idea - and I didn't want to leave it to the last season, but I…

— Kurt Sutter

When Marvel put together Ultimate Spider-Man and someone came up with the idea of having Principal Coulson, they said, "Do you want…

— Clark Gregg

My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently,…

— Robyn

I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in,…

— Tom Hiddleston

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,…

— Berenice Abbott

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do…

— Madonna Ciccone

“The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have…

— Henry Fuseli

I am quick to adopt new ideas. If there is something good, I will follow it and implement it. I adopted information…

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

— Mike Mills

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into…

— John Waters

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

— Eric Metaxas

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

— Carl Jung

I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people;…

— Maiwenn

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not…

— Mark Twain

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.

— William McFee

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

— Giles Foden

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea,…

— Bjork

I've always believed that having many different interests, ambitions and ideas is what makes life interesting.

— Emma Willis

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within…

— Lucian Freud

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and…

— Tim Roth

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

— James A. Garfield