Idea Quotes

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.