Idea Quotes

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'cool, that's something I want to do.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.