Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. – Simone Weil
I don’t know where the ideas come from, and it’s terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I’d walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I’m just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me. – Stewart Lee
We’re exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard. – Win Butler
We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I didn’t have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. – Terry Gilliam
I’m happiest with people who’ve gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism. – William Gibson
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write. – Taylor Swift
When it’s a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you’re riffing off other people’s ideas, that actually can be productive. – Steven Johnson
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. – Scarlett Thomas
I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas. – William Shatner
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. – Trofim Lysenko
We did have a script, but it didn’t consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan for us to follow. But when it came to each scene, we and the gagmen would work out ideas. – Stan Laurel
To sit next to Walter Hill, and to be able to exchange ideas back and forth, and for him to be able to tell you that he likes what you’re doing – I don’t know. I kind of pinch myself. – Sarah Shahi
The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something – and the film was a failure. – Sidney Buchman
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. – Zahi Hawass
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge. – Stephen Covey
I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing. – Sam Claflin
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. – Stephen Gardiner
Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. – Sue Grafton
Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas. – Steven Rattner
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable. – Susan Bysiewicz
I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across. – Sebastian Horsley
Because of how much movies cost, it’s dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original. – Steven Spielberg
Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars. – Ted Deutch
