Idea Quotes

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

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

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad.

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.