Idea Quotes

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.