Idea Quotes

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Everything begins with an idea.

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.