Ideas Quotes

• Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

  

  Glenn Miller
  • Ideas
  • Musicians
  • Wonderfull

• I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Ideas

• It's liberating and rewarding to see your own ideas coming to fruition.

  

  Will Champlin
  • Rewarding
  • Liberating
  • Fruition

• When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • School
  • Mom
  • Charm

• It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Work
  • Artist

• 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
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Records

• If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Ideas
  • Quantity
  • Scares

• The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • World
  • Play
  • Ideas

• It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Sex
  • Sound
  • Strange

• I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Way
  • Audience

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Ideas

• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Ideas
  • Composer

• If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

  

  George Eliot
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Rule

• If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Science
  • Action
  • Unique

• Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Danger
  • Bunch
  • Translate

• 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
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Black

• Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of them. Popper didn't think much of words but thought ideas mattered, and Nabokov didn't think much of ideas, but words mattered, and so on. But both of them had a sense that this is a world of infinite discovery, unending discovery. That quest to discover more in any direction is what I think drives me, and what drives humans, when they're doing the most interesting things.

  

  Brian Boyd
  • Words
  • Chunks
  • Nabokov

• If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Ifs

• I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Found

• Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Ideas
  • Ignite

• I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

  

  Bill Peet
  • Books
  • Result
  • Doodling

• 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
  • Music
  • Libraries
  • Choruses

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