The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.

Not only has this subject been long associated with the ideas of thinking men over the ages but its practical importance is attested to by the huge resources of men and material thrown into this type of work.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

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.

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.