The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.

It's a good idea to not get involved with somebody that you don't trust. That's for sure.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.

I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

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