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Ideas Quotes (page 58)

Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that. James Baldwin
Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it. Jonathan Franzen
Tom Robbins quote: "Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it's still living..."
Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it's still living in Paris in the thirties. Tom Robbins
George Eliot quote: "No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea..."
No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience. George Eliot
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea?... Anais Nin
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life."
You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life. Chuck Palahniuk
And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread. Suzanne Collins
My stories run up and bite me on the leg—I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish the idea lets go and runs off. Ray Bradbury
In behaviorism, an infant's talents and abilities didn't matter because there was no such thing as a talent or an ability. Watson had banned them from psychology, together with other contents of the mind, such as ideas, beliefs, desires, and feelings. They were subjective and unmeasurable, he said, and unfit for science, which studies only objective and measurable things. To a behaviorist, the only legitimate topic for psychology is overt behavior and how it is controlled by the present and... Steven Pinker
Seth Green quote: "(Talking abot peanuts)Arrgh! I never have any idea what any..."
(Talking abot peanuts)Arrgh! I never have any idea what any adult says! It's always that "wha wha wha" crap! Seth Green
Andy Warhol quote: "Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said,..."
Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth. Andy Warhol
Mikhail Lermontov quote: "Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one..."
Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling. Mikhail Lermontov
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. Bram Stoker
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations. Joseph Campbell
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963 Stanley Kubrick

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