Idea Quotes

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.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.