Old Idea Quotes
22 quotes by 22 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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It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
— John B. S. Haldane
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The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing…
— Desmond Morris
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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers,…
— Saul Williams
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We are moving away from the old idea of leadership -- leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent…
— Walter Truett Anderson
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The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person…
— Michael Meade
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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.
— Robert Breault
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the…
— Steig Larsson
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Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye"…
— Sterling W Sill
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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig…
— Steven Pinker
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On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom…
— Harry S. Truman
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
— Sydney J. Harris
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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big…
— James Hillman
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The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's…
— Marco Rubio
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And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not…
— Toni Morrison
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Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to…
— Stephen King
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One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea…
— Louis L'Amour
Who Wrote These Old Idea Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Old Idea Quotes as follows: