Idea Quotes

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it's an artifical idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Men die but an idea does not.

I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.

The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.