S Ideas Quotes

I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

I have no idea what the next project will be and if there's a next project. I don't even know if we're all going to be here tomorrow, but I'm pretty optimistic.

There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

[Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act.

I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think he truly does believe that he can be the Republican nominee.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only one of many, and almost too pretty to look at.

Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

When you have a great idea, and don't rush it, things can work itself out.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself.

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.

Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

Moving from love, not fear - a beautiful idea, especially when applied literally to the body.

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.