Old Idea Quotes

22 Old Idea quotes by 22 unique authors

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
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane
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
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
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
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
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
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. — Robert Breault
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad… — Laura Wasser
I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move… — Richard Schiff

Who Wrote These Old Idea Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 22 Old Idea Quotes as follows: