Idea Quotes

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.