Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Lady Bird Johnson

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
John Cleese

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Douglas Horton

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Stella Adler

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
Bill Hicks

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.
Steven Tyler

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Louis Aragon

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel

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 go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
Les Paul

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
Neil Gaiman

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Neil Gaiman

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
Dawn French

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
Magic Johnson

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering