Idea Quotes

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

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.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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.