Idea Quotes

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
John Ciardi

Good, Hope, Place

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
J. K. Rowling

Different, Poor, Again

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Woman, Country

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
Fareed Zakaria

Change, Mind, Long

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Equality, Fool, Justice

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
Steve Martin

Alone, Romantic, Person

Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale

Everything, Begins

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide

Travel, Him, Off

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer

Real, Wine, Water

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
Ellen DeGeneres

God, Power, Mom

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.
Katy Perry

Love, Good, Girl

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Steve Martin

Writing, Hard, Fire

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Edward Abbey

Needs, Defense, Wilderness

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
Taylor Swift

Good, Writing, Song

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Ernest Holmes

Spiritual, Thought, Same

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash

Sex, Woman, She

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud

Life, Him, Genius

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett

Life, Happiness, Happy

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Mason Cooley

May, Knows, Cow

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Mason Cooley

May, Enough, Clearly

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
Mason Cooley

Real, Places, Changing

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.
Alanis Morissette

Parents, Possible, Limit

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
Joe Biden

Freedom, Free, American

I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.
Kim Kardashian

Love, Thought, Changed

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke

Love, Him, Thought

My idea of fast food is a mallard.
Ted Nugent

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Maynard James Keenan

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings

Words, Often, Ideas

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
Paul McCartney

Forward, Here, Getting

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
Joe Biden

Economy, Percent, Middle

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