Idea Quotes

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.