Ideas Quotes - Page 296

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

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

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other.

Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'

There's a lot of great stories and a lot of great values in the Holy Bible, and I actually relate to a lot of them. The character, the idea, or the part of my personality that I describe as Antichrist Superstar, is a lot like Lucifer in the Bible. Someone who was kicked out of heaven because he wanted to be God

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.