I’m not a politician, I’m not an ideologue, I’m not an organizer anymore. I’m a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can’t force that feeling. – Hari Kondabolu
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. – Henry Rollins
I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs. – Grace Lee Boggs
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person. – Herbie Hancock
I’m constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier – which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times. – Gretchen Rubin
I’m of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. – Henry Rollins
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. – Giles Foden
Beyonce has very clear ideas – she knows exactly what she wants. The thing which she then also has over other celebrities is that she has an amazing voice. She’s incredibly talented, and she’s an amazing dancer – she’s complete. Few are like Beyonce. – Giuseppe Zanotti
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! – H. L. Mencken
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only. – Henry Miller
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good. – Guillermo del Toro
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. – Henry Mayhew
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did. – Glenn Miller
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. – Hector Berlioz
When I don’t have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens. – Geoffrey Beene
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. – Graham Chapman
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values. – Gerald Brenan
I’ve managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me – music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It’s all about ideas. – Gordon Getty
I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas – I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. – Gustav Mahler
There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you’re supposed to be. I think there’s too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There’s no real celebration of just being a person. – Helen Fielding
I call it predicament humor. You don’t do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do. – Glen A. Larson
I’m not an academic; I’m not an archaeologist. I’m a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past is, and a lot of academic archaeology is about refining the model. It’s not about changing the model radically. I’m not aware of any current which is about radically changing the model. It’s just me, really. – Graham Hancock
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. – Giambattista Vico
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. – Hjalmar Branting
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas. – Howard Shore
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. – G. H. Hardy
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. – George Boole
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. – G. H. Hardy
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. – Giambattista Vico
