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1. As flowers grow in more tropical luxuriance in a hothouse, so do wild and frenzied ideas flourish in the darkness —Stefan Zweig
2. Every conjecture exploded like a pricked bubble —Stefan Zweig
3. The flow of ideas is broad, continuous, like a river —Gustave Flaubert

   In a letter to George Sand, Flaubert thus refers to her easy writing style. About his own style, he said, “It’s a tiny trickle.”

4. Get ideas like other men catch cold —Diane Ackerman
5. Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something —E.L. Simpson
6. His fancy … ran along with him, like the sails of a small boat, from which the ballast is thrown overboard —Isak Dinesen
7. The history of ideas is a history of mistakes —Alfred North Whitehead

   Whitehead follows this simile with “But through all mistakes is also the history of the gradual purification of conduct.”

8. The idea came … like a ray of light —Vladimir G. Korolenko
9. The idea danced before us as a flag —Edgar Lee Masters
10. An idea, like a ghost … must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself —Charles Dickens
11. The idea remained, roaming in the dark of his mind … like a rat in the basement, too canny to be poisoned or trapped —John Gardner
12. Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly; for, till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion —Sir Joseph Yates
13. Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up —Voltaire
14. Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other —Eugene Field
15. Ideas come and go; they appear on the horizon as fleeting as rainbows, they rise and fall again like hemlines —Lynne Sharon Schwartz See Also: TRANSIENCE
16. Ideas die, like men —Marguerite Yourcenar
17. Ideas good as a fat wallet —Richard Ford

    See Also: MONEY

18. Ideas, like women’s clothes and rich men’s illnesses, change according to fashion —Lawrence Durrell
19. Ideas of your own are like babies. They are all right if you can keep them quiet —Anon
20. Ideas rose out of him, streamed through his hair like wildflowers —Pat Conroy

    See Also: ABUNDANCE

21. Ideas should be received like guests, in a friendly way, but with the reservation that they are not to tyrannize their host —Albert Moravia
22. Ideas that … in the light of day, may hide but never quite go away. Like mice in old houses, one knows they’re there —David R. Slavitt See Also: PERSISTENCE
23. Ideas winged their way swiftly like martins round the bell at dawn —Ivan Turgenev
24. The imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch, and must get drunk again to find it. It is as intimate as speech and custom, and to trace its ways we need to reeducate our eyes —Guy Davenport
25. Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky —Gelett Burgess
26. Imagination … must be immediate and direct like the gaze that kindles it —Italo Calvino
27. Lack ideas … as if someone had tied a tourniquet around the left side of his brain —Anon
28. Like good yeast bread, a good idea needs time to proof —Erik Sandberg-Diment, New York Times, August 24, 1986
29. (Olga’s mind was sensuously slow: she) lingered over an idea like someone lingering in a hot tub —Wilfrid Sheed
30. Old ideas, like old clothes, put carefully away, come out again after a time almost as good as new —Punch, 1856
31. Picking up the idea by its corner like a soiled hanky —Rosellen Brown
32. Planted ideas … as a gardener will plant sticks for climbing sweet pea —Lawrence Durrell
33. A shortsighted concept … rather like a bankrupt saying he’s invested his capital in debts —Frank Ross
34. The theory arrived neither full-blown, like an orphan on the doorstep, nor sharply defined, like a spike through a shoe; nor did it develop as would a photographic print, crisp images gradually memerging from a shadowy soup. Rather, it unwound like a turban, like mummy bandage —Tom Robbins
35. What America needs now are ideas like shafts of light —Ellen Gilchrist, National Public Radio, September 22, 1986

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