Idea Quotes

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.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.