Ideas Quotes

• When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Song
  • Waiting
  • Frank

• I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.

  

  Ugo Mochi
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Control

• Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Ideas
  • Hero
  • Race

• Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Years

• I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Country
  • Together

• Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Care
  • Errors
  • Caution

• For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Single
  • Eyes
  • Simple

• Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

  

  Ronan Farrow
  • Respect
  • Powerful
  • Hillary Clinton

• 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

• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Light
  • Form
  • Discovery

• I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • American
  • America

• No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

  

  Adrian Forty
  • Ideas
  • Design
  • Embodies

• I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.

  

  Andrew Ripp
  • Different
  • Stills
  • Grateful

• The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Anomalies

• This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

  

  Adriano Celentano
  • Land
  • Monopoly
  • Erroneous

• 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 religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Great
  • May
  • Ifs

• 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

• 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

• I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Future

• If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Hair
  • Persons
  • Radio

• We're starting with a clean slate. I feel like fresh ideas are coming back. It's a new beginning.

  

  Mick Jones The Clash
  • Ideas
  • Coming Back

• If everyone believes in your ideas, they’re probably not that great.

  

  Nathan Vincent Duvall Disciples
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Ideas

• 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

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