Idea Quotes

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

A great idea is not enough.

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.