Idea Quotes

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.