I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Fidel Castro

Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra Pound

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
Audre Lorde

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
Martha Stewart

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli