"I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions."
Read quote
3 likes
Ideas quotes
Ideas
16.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Ideas
Browse quotes that often appear alongside ideas — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Ideas quotes (page 178 of 821)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want."
Read quote
3 likes
"Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea."
Read quote
3 likes
"We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal."
Read quote
3 likes
"The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?"
Read quote
3 likes
"Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory."
Read quote
3 likes
"He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything."
Read quote
3 likes
"I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else."
Read quote
3 likes
"I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming."
Read quote
3 likes
"I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed."
Read quote
3 likes
"The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me."
Read quote
3 likes
"The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people."
Read quote
3 likes
"Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly, "did you know that Lucius Malfoy recognized you last time you risked a little jaunt outside? Clever idea, Black, getting yourself seen on a safe station platform. Gave you a cast-iron excuse not to leave your hidey-hole in future, didn't it?"
Read quote
3 likes
"I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” “Just thought you’d come nosing around, did you?” Harry shouted. He knew that Ron had no idea what he’d walked in on, knew he hadn’t done it on purpose, but he didn’t care — at this moment he hated everything about Ron, right down to the several inches of bare ankle showing beneath his pajama trousers."
Read quote
3 likes
"but the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable."
Read quote
3 likes
"The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions."
Read quote
3 likes
"You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception."
Read quote
3 likes
"The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved."
Read quote
3 likes
"An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared."
Read quote
3 likes