My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

And one more thing.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

I could have been a cult writer if I’d kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

I’m mainstream.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.