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

A plumber's idea of Cleopatra. - WC Fields

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Necessity is the mother of invention. - Unknown

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe

Every great idea I have gets me in trouble. - Unknown

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory. - Bruce Lee

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. - Stephen Covey

Feminism is a wonderful idea until the car goes wrong. - Nicola Zweig

He has diarrhoea of words and a constipation of ideas. - Unknown

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. - Mark Twain

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

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

Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent. - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

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

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg. - Cilla Black

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent. - William Blake

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. - Jim Hightower

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

Nobody was ever meant,
To remember or invent,
What he did with every cent. - Robert Frost

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. - Demetri Martin

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

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

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein: it rejects it. - P.B. Medawar

The best leaders inspire others to harness their utmost potential to benefit the common good. - Peter Tormey

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones. - John Cage

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

I'm one of those people who's not really turned on by baseball. My idea of a relief pitcher is one that's filled with martinis. - Dean Martin

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee. - Daniel Pauly