Ideas Quotes

13167 Ideas quotes by 6467 unique authors

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there. — Jarvis Cocker
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of… — Jean Cocteau
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded… — Diablo Cody
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. — Paulo Coelho
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being… — Andrew Cohen
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many… — Andrew Cohen
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. — B R Ambedkar
I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. — Tori Amos
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas. — Ian Anderson
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. — Laurie Anderson
I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of… — Julie Andrews
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we… — Maya Angelou
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. — Maya Angelou
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. — Maya Angelou
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. — Maya Angelou
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams… — Maya Angelou
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and… — John Dewey
I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am. — Jennifer Aniston
It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time. — Francesca Annis
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's… — Louis Aragon
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on… — Frank Zappa
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and… — Nikola Tesla

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