Great Idea Quotes
195 Great Idea quotes by 175 unique authors
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Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily,…
— Richard Rohr
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Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while…
— Nick Hornby
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
— Albert Camus
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All great ideas are dangerous.
— Oscar Wilde
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You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Andrea: "....I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle.” Kate: “He isn’t a poodle. He’s a…
— Ilona Andrews
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Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
— John Ashbery
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Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come?…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is…
— Jim Benton
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I'm not sure that's such a great idea." Luke said. "It's a fabulous idea." Jace dropped the paper back onto the table, and began to…
— Cassandra Clare
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The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed…
— Hermann Hesse
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Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I…
— Neil Gaiman
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Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea.
— Rick Riordan
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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
— Walter Isaacson
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I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which…
— Leo Tolstoy
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There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance…
— Robert Musil
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Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
— James G. Frazer
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Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a…
— Eric Foner
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This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and…
— Richelle Mead
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...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each…
— Brad Thor
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Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In…
— Chris Colfer
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Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it,…
— Donald Miller
Who Wrote These Great Idea Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 195 Great Idea Quotes, led by these top contributors: