#ideas

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#constantly #day #get #how #i

But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#city #each #farm #florida #gonna

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#even #express #genius #great #great number

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#common #common ground #each #entire #ground

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#consciousness #cultural #decades #easy #eighteen

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#even #him #hold #ideas #lay

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#first #generate #get #i #ideas

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#done #ideas #keep #must #something

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#fresh #fresh ideas #i #ideas #poorly

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. ↗

— Grant Wood

#cow #ever #good #good ideas #had