Idea Quotes

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

What a crazy idea to put me on a family show!

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.