Ideas Quotes
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I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
August Strindberg
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Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.
Octavio Paz
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Absorb ideas from every source.
Thomas A. Edison
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I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'
Kamasi Washington
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Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.
Kandyse McClure
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When we talked about a wall, right, to try to keep out this threat. The problem is that these are ideas. And they are filtering throughout the world. And it was naïve, and I think ultimately, the reason why we, as Muslims, stood on Friday and went to the mosque and took the risks on our own lives, is because we've had enough. I think the world has had enough.
Dalia Mogahed
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The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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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
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Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
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I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.
Kristen Stewart
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And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. . . . Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.
Unita Zelma Blackwell
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Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.
Tom Stoppard
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As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.
Tilda Swinton
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We did have choruses before, just the libraries of music in people's heads are so undeveloped that their ideas of choruses are training wheels and the Bay City Rollers.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala At the Drive-In
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Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.
Barack Obama
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel
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Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
John Stuart Mill
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You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.
Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.
Leonard Peikoff
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History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.
Colin Falconer