Ideas Quotes · Page 61

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

— Robert Frost

Pursue ideas whole-heatedly and life will reward you in full.

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

— Kelly Nelson

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

— John Frusciante

Celebrate your own biases, they are probably brilliantly messy.

— Alastair Arnott

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

— Pema Chodron

History marched to the drums of a clear idea...

— W. H. Auden

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

— Robert Benton

Whoever has a great idea, it doesn't matter who it comes from. You just want to have as many good ideas as…

— Mike Budenholzer

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go…

— Isla Fisher

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

— Esperanza Spalding

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is…

— Mitt Romney

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president.

— Barack Obama

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

— Anonymous

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who…

— Kathleen Norris

The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible…

— Alexander Hamilton

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing…

— George Soros

You go through different emotions when you're in captivity. On the one hand you say, my career is over. On the other…

— James Foley

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines…

— David Hume

Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is…

— Judith Martin

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,'…

— Amanda McBroom

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of…

— Samuel Johnson

What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do…

— Anna Quindlen

I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are…

— John Hallock Jr

Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing…

— Bill Drayton

The most interesting to me were Doctor Strange, because he was so mystic, and Thor, because that was really cool. I mean,…

— Trina Robbins

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at…

— Rob Bell

e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"…

— Albert Einstein

I had no idea what to expect! When the series began, I was new to comics, so I really had to keep…

— Robin Furth

The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve…

— Lord Acton

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

— Harold Ramis

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

— Sergio Aragones

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

— Tom G. Palmer

Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.

— Wolf Kahn

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

— J. K. Rowling

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

— Glen Hansard

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

— Charlie Kaufman

You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

— Georges St-Pierre