Quotes and Sayings About Ideas
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If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
-- Allan SavorySource : "Art, Film and Wilderness". Interview with Kevin George, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.
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If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.
-- Allan W. Eckert -
Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere.
-- Allen CovertSource : "EXCLUSIVE: Allen Covert Gets Lost in the Strange Wilderness!". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 12, 2007.
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We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.
-- Allison Mackie -
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Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably less conspicuous had the Bagshaws not been dressed as chimney sweeps). Kat turned back to Hale. 'The Mary Poppins?' 'Seemed like a good idea at the time.
-- Ally Carter -
Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle
-- Ally Carter -
Um…†Simon started slowly “at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the worldʼs best database of international criminals.†“Thatʼs the idea †Gabrielle said with a nod. “And I feel compelled to remind you that weʼre international criminals †he finished but Kat was already smiling. “Donʼt worry Simon. Itʼs not like anyone in there knows it was a bunch of teenagers who robbed the Henley.
-- Ally Carter -
You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..
-- Alma Alexander -
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Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
-- Alphonse Karr -
I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
-- Alton Brown -
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 AaltoSource : Alvar Aalto, Alvar Aalto-museo (1994). “Alvar Aalto: points of contact”
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.
-- Alvin Toffler -
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I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how I ended up at this fiberglass table with you losers.
-- Alyson Noel -
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
-- Amanda Burton -
Well I loved the idea of playing a girl who dresses up like a dude ...
-- Amanda Bynes -
I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.
-- Amanda Bynes -
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Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don’t hold up well under scrutiny.
-- Amanda Marcotte -
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.
-- Amanda McBroomSource : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.
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I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
-- Amanda Palmer -
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There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
-- Amartya Sen -
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
-- Amartya Sen -
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.
-- Amartya Sen -
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
-- Amartya Sen -
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I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
-- Amber Heard -
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
-- Amiri Baraka -
The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
-- Amit GoswamiSource : Interview with Mike Schwager, www.enrichment.com.