The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

I love playing around with ideas and turning them into something useful or fun.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.

I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't.

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

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