Quotes about ideas
ideas trying attention
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it. Clint Eastwood
ideas creative desire
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one? Clara Schumann
ideas alive immortal-life
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. Clarence Darrow
ideas cathedrals inherit-the-wind
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
ideas essentials failing
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. Daniel Day-Lewis
ideas two giving
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other. Daniel Dennett
ideas people tradition
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
ideas compliment shows
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment. Alexander McQueen
ideas exposed areas
I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
ideas vision plight
It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
ideas driven certain
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas. Alex Winter
ideas feelings singles
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own. Alex Kapranos
ideas feelings listening
When you are grounded in the present - feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas - you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go. Debbie Ford
ideas christ ought
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ E. Stanley Jones
ideas names ifs
Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me. Drew Barrymore
ideas australia victory
From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!" Douglas MacArthur
ideas ease links
While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other. Douglas Rushkoff
ideas democracy overcoming
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. Dorothy Thompson
ideas finding-yourself gone
As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by. Donna Dubinsky
ideas justice gone
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him. Donna Leon
ideas long germs
Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest. Donna Karan
ideas publishing industry
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. Donald E. Westlake
ideas two guy
When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind.
ideas demand next
It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless. Donald Barthelme
ideas silence literature
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. Don DeLillo
ideas intuition matter
A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
ideas shapes size
A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
ideas trying pages
If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
ideas america around-the-world
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear. Dylan Walsh
ideas captains
I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain. Dylan Lauren
ideas vision want
You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie. Dylan McDermott
ideas race people
We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another. Dwight D. Eisenhower
ideas years bored
I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000. Doug Stanhope