Idea Quotes

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.