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I do not get ideas; ideas get me. - Robertson Davies

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. - Elbert Hubbard

It is easier to demolish a house than to build one. - Irish proverb

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas. - Mark Batterson

Only through practice can new ideas truly be evaluated. - Unknown

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. - Unknown

I have so much hair, I have a separate wig closet in my house. - Sherri Shepherd

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. - Chinese Proverb

Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. - Rose Macaulay

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. - David Ogilvie

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? - Kinky Friedman

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. - Thomas A. Edison

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. - Oscar Wilde

If you burn your neighbor's house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. - Lou Holtz

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale. - Elon Musk

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

So finally, the great Jefferson, who always reclined to cross my freshhold is into the house. - Archie Bunker

It's not my fault I was dragged out of my house by a mob and forced to predict the weather. - Punxsutawney Phil

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. - David H. Comins

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal. - Zig Ziglar

The Honourable Lady was once an egg and people on both sides of this House greatly regret its fertilisation. - Nicholas Fairbairn

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. - Paula Poundstone

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. - Nora Ephron

It always seems that fights over ideas skip over the barrier into the real world and become battles of real violence. - Peter Parker

I was born by Caesarian section... but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window. - Steven Wright

Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any. - Orson S. Card

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken