Ideas Quotes
13167 quotes by 6467 authors
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The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
— Benjamin Britten
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I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.
— Eli Broad
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me,…
— Emily Bronte
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
— James L. Brooks
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
— Alton Brown
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for…
— Dan Brown
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government…
— Harry Browne
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for…
— Julie Burchill
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And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of…
— Dave Brubeck
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in…
— Bill Bryson
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
— Pearl S. Buck
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It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
— Abdallah II
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've…
— Warren Buffett
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in…
— Warren Buffett
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After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
— Sandra Bullock
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