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Idea Quotes


"blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mom."..."

Full 'Harry Potter' Quote   Source: Harry Potter
"one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are..."

Full 'Gloria Vanderbilt' Quote   Source: Gloria Vanderbilt
"to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the..."

Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote   Source: Dizzy Gillespie
"...we live in a universe which is the Idea, or Dream of its Creator."

Full 'Evelyn Underhill' Quote   Source: Evelyn Underhill
"[I]n the last twenty-five years, [the idea of] man as "the enemy"..."

Full 'Karen Decrow' Quote   Source: Karen Decrow
"thing meditation frees you from is the idea of "do-ership," the..."

Full 'Phylicia Rashad' Quote   Source: Phylicia Rashad
"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and"

Full 'Helen Rowland' Quote   Source: Helen Rowland
"celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress..."

Full 'Carl Sagan' Quote   Source: Carl Sagan
"nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof..."

Full 'Claude Bernard' Quote   Source: Claude Bernard
"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

Full 'Jean Ingelow' Quote   Source: Jean Ingelow
"die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

Full 'John F Kennedy' Quote   Source: John F Kennedy
"rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

Full 'John F Kennedy' Quote   Source: John F Kennedy
"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea"

Full 'Mary Kay Ash' Quote   Source: Mary Kay Ash
"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."

Full 'Marcel Proust' Quote   Source: Marcel Proust
"All beliefs are bald ideas."

Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote   Source: Francis Picabia
"Christianity, Islam and Judaism -- have a hateful idea at the very core...."

Full 'Matthew Parris' Quote   Source: Matthew Parris
"wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work "comes"..."

Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote   Source: W. H. Auden
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it,..."

Full 'Pablo Picasso' Quote   Source: Pablo Picasso
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of..."

Full 'Georg Hegel' Quote   Source: Georg Hegel
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of..."

Full 'Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel' Quote   Source: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it..."

Full 'Richard Bach' Quote   Source: Richard Bach
"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."

Full 'Don Marquis' Quote   Source: Don Marquis
"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over"

Full 'F Scott Fitzgerald' Quote   Source: F Scott Fitzgerald
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

Full 'Oscar Wilde' Quote   Source: Oscar Wilde
"curious about people and more curious about ideas."

Full 'Marie Curie' Quote   Source: Marie Curie
"the birth of a child or the birth of an idea."

Full 'Marianne Williamson' Quote   Source: Marianne Williamson
". the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at..."

Full 'Paul Gauguin' Quote   Source: Paul Gauguin
"Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire-- that was my idea of what it was supposed to..."

Full 'Sharon Stone' Quote   Source: Sharon Stone
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

Full 'Helen Keller' Quote   Source: Helen Keller
"notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all"

Full 'Don Marquis' Quote   Source: Don Marquis
"Do you get ideas from children? Do you ask children what they're interested..."

Full 'J K Rowling' Quote   Source: J K Rowling
"Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea..."

Full 'Al Capone' Quote   Source: Al Capone
"'Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea"

Full 'Wyndham Lewis' Quote   Source: Wyndham Lewis
"reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly..."

Full 'Victor Kiam' Quote   Source: Victor Kiam
"Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in..."

Full 'Barbara Cartland' Quote   Source: Barbara Cartland
"of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's..."

Full 'Joan C Harvey' Quote   Source: Joan C Harvey
"should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for..."

Full 'Rowan Atkinson' Quote   Source: Rowan Atkinson
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done"

Full 'Walt Disney' Quote   Source: Walt Disney
"Getting ideas is like shaving; if you don't do it every day, you're a bum."

Full 'Alexander Kroll' Quote   Source: Alexander Kroll
"years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play...."

Full 'Gary Player' Quote   Source: Gary Player
""reporting" based on William Faulkner's idea that the best..."

Full 'Hunter S Thompson' Quote   Source: Hunter S Thompson
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds"

Full 'Laurence Peter' Quote   Source: Laurence Peter
"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."

Full 'Euripides' Quote   Source: Euripides
"history in essence is the history of ideas."

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was..."

Full 'Clarence Thomas' Quote   Source: Clarence Thomas
"believe everything begins with a positive idea... The mind is your most"

Full 'Ron Jaworski' Quote   Source: Ron Jaworski
"a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me..."

Full 'Grace Paley' Quote   Source: Grace Paley
"believe in all these man-made institutional ideas...."

Full 'George Carlin' Quote   Source: George Carlin
"writer, I'm pulled by stories, not by ideas; I see the world in the stories..."

Full 'Sara Paretsky' Quote   Source: Sara Paretsky
"I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but..."

Full 'Margaret Anderson' Quote   Source: Margaret Anderson
"one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you..."

Full 'Cecil Rhodes' Quote   Source: Cecil Rhodes
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the"

Full 'John Erskine' Quote   Source: John Erskine
"I have no idea what motivated me to try again. I felt like giving it a..."

Full 'Jim Carrey' Quote   Source: Jim Carrey
"there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas...."

Full 'Jack Handy' Quote   Source: Jack Handy
"you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching...."

Full 'Jack Handy' Quote   Source: Jack Handy
"large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to..."

Full 'Alfred Nobel' Quote   Source: Alfred Nobel
"I passionately hate the idea of being "with it," I think an..."

Full 'Orson Welles' Quote   Source: Orson Welles
"and finish the song with a different idea...."

Full 'Courtney Love' Quote   Source: Courtney Love
"playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular"

Full 'J August Strindberg' Quote   Source: J August Strindberg
"still miss the Latin Mass; I liked the idea that you could attend Mass..."

Full 'Oliver North' Quote   Source: Oliver North
"I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music...."

Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote   Source: Dizzy Gillespie
"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea..."

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"Ideas are, in truth, force."

Full 'Henry James' Quote   Source: Henry James
"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just"

Full 'Jim Rohn' Quote   Source: Jim Rohn
"Ideas control the world."

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have"

Full 'Steve Allen' Quote   Source: Steve Allen
"Ideas in the mind are magnifcant but when spoken are barely adequate."

Full 'Brian Cullins' Quote   Source: Brian Cullins
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or..."

Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote   Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented."

Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote   Source: Hannah Arendt
"Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of"

Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote   Source: Dizzy Gillespie
"If a person holds irrational ideas and insists that others should accept..."

Full 'Ray Ginger' Quote   Source: Ray Ginger
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am"

Full 'Alfred Nobel' Quote   Source: Alfred Nobel
"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to..."

Full 'Grace Hopper' Quote   Source: Grace Hopper
"might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'..."

Full 'Rebecca West' Quote   Source: Rebecca West
"If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt."

Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote   Source: Francis Picabia
"storyteller. For a while, I toyed with the idea of trying to review books,..."

Full 'Louise Erdrich' Quote   Source: Louise Erdrich
"the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions..."

Full 'George Carlin' Quote   Source: George Carlin
"marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning..."

Full 'Michael J Fox' Quote   Source: Michael J Fox
""scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are..."

Full 'Cynthia Ozick' Quote   Source: Cynthia Ozick
"satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings..."

Full 'Alfred Kazin' Quote   Source: Alfred Kazin
"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false"

Full 'Edgar Degas' Quote   Source: Edgar Degas
"the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs...."

Full 'William Osler' Quote   Source: William Osler
"mere mortals. The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have..."

Full 'Heywood Broun' Quote   Source: Heywood Broun
"In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses."

Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote   Source: Heinrich Heine
"facing each other . But if you have some idea, then you will see your own..."

Full 'Osho' Quote   Source: Osho
"band, I wanted to bring some of these ideas into it...."

Full 'Jim Morrison' Quote   Source: Jim Morrison
"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real"

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."

Full 'John Maynard Keynes' Quote   Source: John Maynard Keynes
"heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas...."

Full 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky' Quote   Source: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one."

Full 'George Byron' Quote   Source: George Byron
"stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and..."

Full 'Emily Bronte' Quote   Source: Emily Bronte
"I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with"

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully...."

Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote   Source: Thomas Edison
"science, and words are but the signs of ideas...."

Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote   Source: Samuel Johnson
"about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky."

Full 'Boris Yeltsin' Quote   Source: Boris Yeltsin
"cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above..."

Full 'Leon Trotsky' Quote   Source: Leon Trotsky
"invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed."

Full 'Tom Clancy' Quote   Source: Tom Clancy
"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear"

Full 'Paul Eldridge' Quote   Source: Paul Eldridge
"Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an..."

Full 'John Wanamaker' Quote   Source: John Wanamaker
"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty..."

Full 'Phyllis Mcginley' Quote   Source: Phyllis Mcginley
"one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique...."

Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Bowen
"Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes."

Full 'Carl Sandberg' Quote   Source: Carl Sandberg
"of anything other than a concept, an idea in people's minds...."

Full 'Thomas Vernon' Quote   Source: Thomas Vernon
"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world..."

Full 'Sir Edward Elgar' Quote   Source: Sir Edward Elgar
"My idea of a perfect world is for every- one to be happy and happy with..."

Full 'Britney Spears' Quote   Source: Britney Spears
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote   Source: Benjamin Disraeli
"My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone."

Full 'George Foreman' Quote   Source: George Foreman
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it..."

Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote   Source: Thomas Edison
"Never have ideas about children -- and never have ideas for them."

Full 'D H Lawrence' Quote   Source: D H Lawrence
"in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."

Full 'F Scott Fitzgerald' Quote   Source: F Scott Fitzgerald
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern..."

Full 'Ellen Glasgow' Quote   Source: Ellen Glasgow
"happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's..."

Full 'Jim Henson' Quote   Source: Jim Henson
"storyboard as our hopes, aspirations and ideas take shape. Sometimes others..."

Full 'Steve Pomfret' Quote   Source: Steve Pomfret
"familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for...."

Full 'John Henry Newman' Quote   Source: John Henry Newman
"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."

Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Bowen
"to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

Full 'Walter Bagehot' Quote   Source: Walter Bagehot
"Our situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the..."

Full 'Jefferson Davis' Quote   Source: Jefferson Davis
"country deliberately founded on a good idea."

Full 'John Gunther' Quote   Source: John Gunther
"Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but..."

Full 'Amy Vanderbilt' Quote   Source: Amy Vanderbilt
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones"

Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote   Source: Ezra Pound
"worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand..."

Full 'Maya Angelou' Quote   Source: Maya Angelou
"Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held..."

Full 'Paul Engle' Quote   Source: Paul Engle
"to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with..."

Full 'Paul Engle' Quote   Source: Paul Engle
"occurred to me not to include those types of ideas in songs...."

Full 'Steve Earle' Quote   Source: Steve Earle
"Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."

Full 'Paul Valery' Quote   Source: Paul Valery
"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them."

Full 'Michael Levine' Quote   Source: Michael Levine
"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same..."

Full 'Phil Donahue' Quote   Source: Phil Donahue
"Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they..."

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering...."

Full 'Abraham Maslow' Quote   Source: Abraham Maslow
"of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to"

Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote   Source: Samuel Johnson
"Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end."

Full 'August Wilson' Quote   Source: August Wilson
"warn of an upcoming earthquake, ... The idea could also explain the weird..."

Full 'Catherine Zandonella' Quote   Source: Catherine Zandonella
"fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one."

Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote   Source: Samuel Johnson
"nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an..."

Full 'Walter Benjamin' Quote   Source: Walter Benjamin
"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

Full 'David Ogilvy' Quote   Source: David Ogilvy
"Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully,..."

Full 'Norman Thomas' Quote   Source: Norman Thomas
"between good and great is an inspired idea and perspiration on your shirt."

Full 'Rev. Darrell W. Boswell' Quote   Source: Rev. Darrell W. Boswell
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old..."

Full 'John Maynard Keynes' Quote   Source: John Maynard Keynes
"is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself..."

Full 'Emile M Cioran' Quote   Source: Emile M Cioran
"greater the risk, usually the worse the idea."

Full 'Robert Heller' Quote   Source: Robert Heller
"The idea of life is to give and receive."

Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote   Source: Dizzy Gillespie
"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."

Full 'Edward Abbey' Quote   Source: Edward Abbey
"The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous..."

Full 'Abbie Hoffman' Quote   Source: Abbie Hoffman
"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights..."

Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote   Source: Ayn Rand
"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

Full 'Mark Twain' Quote   Source: Mark Twain
"of free speech and the advancement of ideas that challenge the conventional..."

Full 'Herbert Marcuse' Quote   Source: Herbert Marcuse
"most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work..."

Full 'Lin Yutang' Quote   Source: Lin Yutang
"actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is..."

Full 'Cynthia Heimel' Quote   Source: Cynthia Heimel
"The rational society subverts the idea of Reason."

Full 'Herbert Marcuse' Quote   Source: Herbert Marcuse
"The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work..."

Full 'Judith Martin' Quote   Source: Judith Martin
"intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the..."

Full 'F Scott Fitzgerald' Quote   Source: F Scott Fitzgerald
"true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas."

Full 'Alfred Victor Vigny' Quote   Source: Alfred Victor Vigny
"The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty..."

Full 'Woody Allen' Quote   Source: Woody Allen
"Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged."

Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote   Source: Henry Ward Beecher
"There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

Full 'Everett Dirksen' Quote   Source: Everett Dirksen
"the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come...."

Full 'Victor Hugo' Quote   Source: Victor Hugo
"There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have..."

Full 'Demi Moore' Quote   Source: Demi Moore
"Thinking about an idea will not get the book written. Writing it down is..."

Full 'Sue Grafton' Quote   Source: Sue Grafton
"excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly..."

Full 'Claude Bernard' Quote   Source: Claude Bernard
"the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and..."

Full 'Bruce Jenner' Quote   Source: Bruce Jenner
"virtual environments, defined by our ideas."

Full 'Michael Crichton' Quote   Source: Michael Crichton
"are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."

Full 'Kurt Vonnegut' Quote   Source: Kurt Vonnegut
"nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote   Source: Louis Aragon
"We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very..."

Full 'Linda Ronstadt' Quote   Source: Linda Ronstadt
"to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters...."

Full 'Alec Baldwin' Quote   Source: Alec Baldwin
"are never taken by surprise, all your ideas scattered like leaves before a..."

Full 'Anne Perry' Quote   Source: Anne Perry
"Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right..."

Full 'Diane Sawyer' Quote   Source: Diane Sawyer
"cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most..."

Full 'Mozart' Quote   Source: Mozart
"When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months,..."

Full 'Johnny Cash' Quote   Source: Johnny Cash
"When I started, I had this idea that the films I did defined me, and that..."

Full 'Brad Pitt' Quote   Source: Brad Pitt
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you"

Full 'Phylicia Rashad' Quote   Source: Phylicia Rashad
"When you're in deep water it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut!"

Full 'Alfred E Newman' Quote   Source: Alfred E Newman
"can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."

Full 'Medgar Evers' Quote   Source: Medgar Evers
"can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea."

Full 'Myrlie Evers' Quote   Source: Myrlie Evers
"not put a rope around the neck of an idea; you can not put an idea up..."

Full 'Sean O'casey' Quote   Source: Sean O'casey
"You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that a..."

Full 'Paul Cezanne' Quote   Source: Paul Cezanne
"You have no idea how much it costs to look this cheap"

Full 'Steven Tyler' Quote   Source: Steven Tyler
"You think you know, but you have no idea, I feel you stare, but you dont..."

Full 'Unknown Source' Quote   Source: Unknown Source
"- and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long...."

Full 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Your ideas of love change. I mean, you thought you were in love when you..."

Full 'Brad Pitt' Quote   Source: Brad Pitt