Ideas Quotes

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.