S Ideas Quotes

I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

Ideas are incestuous.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

I bear you my witness that the Savior is closer to us than you have any idea. He will be close to you and the powers divine will be at your side when you have nowhere else to turn.

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

Idea is to constantly raise the bar, push the boundaries. Fitness is ultimately a journey, not a destination.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

People kept asking, Whats your market? Ive got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.