Idea Quotes

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.