Explore Quotes on Ideas

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

My ideas are my whores.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.