I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Jeanette Winterson

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Samuel Butler

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
Jane Rule

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.
Saadi

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
Georgia O'Keeffe

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Donatella Versace

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
Alan Alda

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
Jackie Collins

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
David Lynch

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
Anna Quindlen

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Rupert Murdoch

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.