Quotes about ideas
ideas becoming stills
I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. Anthony Head
ideas triumph fantasy
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. Anthony Daniels
ideas people ruthless
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas. Anthony de Mello
ideas trying lines
It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it. Angela Lansbury
ideas might sparks
An idea might spark an essay, but never a story. Amy Hempel
ideas people might
You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there. Amy Grant
ideas creative needs
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. Alvar Aalto
ideas race evil
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees. Anne Rice
ideas oratory quiet
... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea. Anna Julia Cooper
ideas people firsts
For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas. Anna Deavere Smith
ideas interesting mind
You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time. Anna Deavere Smith
ideas people use
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas. Anna Deavere Smith
ideas people messengers
I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself. Anita Hill
ideas two complicated
There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are. Andrew Tobias
ideas feels sequels
And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued. Andrew Stanton
ideas decision church
The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism. Andrew Solomon
ideas evil hurtful
The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering. Andrew Solomon
ideas soul language
The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith. Andrew Solomon
ideas awful loses
The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful. Andrew Solomon
ideas people joy
Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre. Andrew Solomon
ideas years mind
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false. Andre Maurois
ideas two identity
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
ideas conversation substitutes
Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas. Ambrose Bierce
ideas people emotion
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. Ambrose Bierce
ideas might planning
What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea. Anthony Horowitz
ideas sight magic
I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight. Anthony Horowitz
ideas important looks
When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life. Anthony Hopkins
ideas defying conventions
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. Anthony Kiedis
ideas dying felt
I never felt like dying was a good idea. Anthony Kiedis
ideas giving style
I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception. Alicia Keys
ideas skins wasps
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. Alice Weaver Flaherty
ideas hatred done
And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal. Alice Hoffman
ideas fairy-tale being-a-woman
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. Alice Hoffman