Idea Quotes

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.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.