Ideas Quotes · Page 305

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

— Robert Stromberg

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

— Nicholas Royle

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want…

— Will Smith

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea…

— Stan Smith

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the…

— Jeff Melvoin

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

— Ron Jeffries

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

— Anonymous

I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of…

— David McCullough

“...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written,…

— Orhan Pamuk

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I…

— Lily Cole

I don't have a nightlife. People say, "You need these cocktail dresses for all the receptions" - except I don't go, because…

— Nancy Pelosi

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will…

— Noah Webster

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and…

— Jason Reitman

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.…

— Avi

I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same…

— Kathy Bates

And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I've heard you. Your cause is…

— Hillary Clinton

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the…

— B. F. Skinner

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the…

— Leo Tolstoy

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is…

— Scott Pelley

Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into…

— Sonny Rollins

There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do…

— Christopher Nolan

IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

— Napoleon Hill

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

— Susie Bright

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

— Franz Grillparzer

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's…

— Fran Lebowitz

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

— David Byrne

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

— Sam Altman

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

— Yvette Mimieux

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach…

— Alan Palomo

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in…

— Brian Eno

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

— Katherine Dunn

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

— H. L. Mencken

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

— Adam Grant

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

— Frederic Raphael

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

— Krzysztof Piatek

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page,…

— Carl Hiaasen