Ideas Quotes

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

~ Mark Twain

There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty.

~ Evan Mcmullin

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

~ Lily Cole

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

~ Michelle Yeoh

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

~ Louis Aragon

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

~ George Berkeley

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

~ Shane Claiborne

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

~ Jerry Spinelli

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

~ Virginia Postrel

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

~ Mary Pope Osborne

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

~ Wayne Dyer

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

~ Paul Ryan

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

~ Judy Blume

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

~ Amy Tan

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

~ Michelle Paver

Ideas control the world.

~ James A. Garfield

I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.

~ Robertson Davies

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

~ Marilyn Manson

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

~ Georges Braque

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

~ Gerard Way

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

~ Patti Smith

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.

~ Jeremy Corbyn

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.

~ David Lloyd

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

~ Bill Moyers

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

~ Lewis Black

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

~ Eliot Spitzer

If you're sort of interested in politics but sort of upset about contemporary politics, it's kind of wonderful to read about periods who were very eloquent and admirable - generally. People are articulating ideas you can sympathize with or understand both sides of. Or at least feel like one side is saying the right things.

~ Whit Stillman

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

~ Al Gore

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

~ Jack Kemp

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

~ Robert Byrd

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

~ Powers Boothe

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

~ Madeleine Peyroux

We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and terrorists. They seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas - things of incredible value to all of us. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy.

~ James Comey

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.

~ Graeme Simsion

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

~ Brian Schweitzer

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

~ Richard Scaife

I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing.

~ Lauren London

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

~ Robert Collier