Interesting Ideas Quotes:

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

- Walter Bagehot

source: Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.53, Lulu.com

topic: Pride, Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

- Kelly Gallagher

topic: Opportunity, Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

- Robert Rauschenberg

source: "The Constant Art of Being a Writer" by N. M. Kelby, (p. 102), 2009.

topic: Ideas, Interesting, Momentum, Interesting Ideas

My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.

- Mark Bradford

topic: Art, Thinking, Practice, Interesting Ideas

Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples. If a grandmaster is commenting on one of his own games, then there is usually not any problem: his general thoughts are closely tied up with what is happening on the board. But as soon as he starts writing an article or book on a different theme the difficulties begin, as he may not have suitable material to hand.

- Mark Dvoretsky

topic: Book, Writing, Hands, Interesting Ideas, Tied Up

We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

- Anne Dudley

topic: Years, Ideas, Icons, Interesting Ideas, Debussy

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea

- Norton Juster

topic: Teacher, Kids, School, Interesting Ideas, Schools And Teachers

I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.

- Sacha Baron Cohen

source: "The brilliance of Sacha Baron Cohen" by Harry Phibbs, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Talking, Ideas, Interesting Ideas

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

- Glen Hansard

source: "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

topic: Sadness, Artist, Thinking, Interesting Ideas

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.

- David Bowie

topic: Writing, Cutting, Ideas, Bounce, Interesting Ideas

I like walking into the studio everyday and having completely custom, diverse artwork to do. And my clients keep the interesting ideas flowing in.

- William Webb

topic: Ideas, Interesting, Everyday, Interesting Ideas

Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area, in the Nelson Mandela-type area, you know, relaxed and groovy; and the Romans thought, Relaxed and groovy?! No, no, no, no, no! So they murdered him. And kids eat chocolate eggs, because of the color of the chocolate, and the color of the... wood on the cross. Well, you tell me! It's got nothing to do with it, has it?

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Jesus, Kids, Thinking, Nelson, Interesting Ideas

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

source: Source: girdblog.com

topic: Writing, Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas

That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would've been really great had it continued. I know Brannon Braga, who was running the show at the time, had a lot of really interesting ideas for what was going to happen the second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons, and they had it really planned out what was going to go on. But CBS just decided to pull the plug on it.

- Brent Spiner

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Running, Thinking, Ideas, Interesting Ideas

The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.

- Robert Barry

topic: Wall, Space, Ideas, Interesting Ideas

Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.

- Johnny Marr

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Rap, Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas, Soulful

The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is something where you think, "Oh, that sounds like an interesting idea but I don't love it," then I can't do my job well.

- Andy Weir

source: Source: variety.com

topic: Jobs, Love Is, Thinking, Interesting Ideas

I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.

- Marcel Dzama

topic: Beer, Color, Ideas, Interesting Ideas, Root Beer

It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

- Quentin S. Crisp

topic: Reality, Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas, Chilled

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

- Joel Silver

source: "Producer Joel Silver on Splice, Logan’s Run, Swamp Thing, the Apparation, Project-x, Unknown White Male". Press Day Interview, collider.com. May 22, 2010.

topic: Ideas, People, Interesting, Interesting Ideas

Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

- Bill Drayton

topic: Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas, Interesting Ideas, Brilliance

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

- Robert Rauschenberg

topic: Ideas, Interesting, Momentum, Interesting Ideas

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

- John Szarkowski

topic: Photography, Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas

The only interesting ideas are heresies

- Susan Sontag

topic: Ideas, Interesting, Heresy, Interesting Ideas

Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea . . . No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Wise, Dad, Ideas, Interesting Ideas, Lightning Bolts

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

- Neill Blomkamp

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, Interesting, Fiction, Interesting Ideas, Johannesburg

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Success, Business, Technology, Interesting Ideas, Original Ideas

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

- Ryan Gosling

topic: Suicide, Fun, Thinking, Interesting Ideas, Looming

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

- Cory Doctorow

source: Cory Doctorow (2012). “Pirate Cinema”, p.208, Macmillan

topic: Creativity, Ideas, Differences, Interesting Ideas

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

- Ted Alexandro

source: "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

topic: Talking, Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas

I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.

- Chuck Klosterman

source: Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

topic: Writing, Thinking, Ideas, Interesting Ideas

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

topic: Real, Book, Ideas, Interesting Ideas, Political Correctness

Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of meanness, or anything, it just sort of seemed an interesting idea to see if there was some synchronicity and letting me use my imagination to the fullest instead of being constricted by cuts and images.

- Christopher Nolan

topic: Reading, Cutting, Ideas, Interesting Ideas, Nolan

John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!

- Richard P. Feynman

source: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman. Part 3: "Feynman, The Bomb, and the Military", "Los Alamos from Below", p. 132, 1985.

topic: Powerful, Men, Ideas, Interesting Ideas, Von Neumann

I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.

- Clint Eastwood

source: Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

topic: Interesting Ideas

It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

- Charlie Rose

topic: Thinking, Class, Ideas, Interesting Ideas

There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.

- Jeremy Stoppelman

topic: Team, Cat, Games, Interesting Ideas, Cat And Mouse

The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.

- Richard Hawley

topic: Night, Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

- Lenny Kravitz

topic: Ideas, Interesting, Would Be, Interesting Ideas

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!

- Erasmus Darwin

source: Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough”, p.560

topic: Past, Ideas, Iron, Incumbents, Interesting Ideas