S Ideas Quotes

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone is human.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them really.

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.

Ideas need collective thought.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

As a class, Jews give three times as much money to charity as anybody else, but they feel guilty about their wealth anyway. They simply can't accept the idea of ever being Republicans.

The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy.

I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.