Ideas Quotes

13167 Ideas quotes by 6467 unique authors

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was… — Robin Williams
Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control… — J P Donleavy
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,… — Corey Taylor
Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests -… — Corey Taylor
I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made… — Corey Taylor
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet… — William Shakespeare
Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We… — Julia Cameron
Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per… — Jane Goodall
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting… — Angela Merkel
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. — Martha Stewart
I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive.… — Sam Walton
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. — Bernard Malamud
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. — Raymond E. Feist
If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the… — William Campbell Gault
The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework… — Sean O Faolain
I never started from ideas but always from character. — Ivan Turgenev
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what… — George R. R. Martin
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction… — George R. R. Martin
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's… — John Green
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one… — Mark Twain
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. — David Belasco

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