300 Quotes on Idea

• I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

  Author: Fritz Zwicky

• The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

  Author: Stefan Zweig

• I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.

  Author: Oleksandr Zhuravliov

• My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

  Author: Loretta Young

• We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

  Author: Ron Wyden

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

  Author: Will Wright

• The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

  Author: Wilbur Wright

• For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

  Author: Jeffrey Wright

• The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

  Author: Gary Wright

• The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

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

  Author: Robert Wilson

• It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

  Author: Ann Wilson

• I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

  Author: William Wills

• When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

  Author: Kit Williams

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

  Author: Christine Whitman

• I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

  Author: Wayne White

• If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

  Author: Bryan White

• Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

  Author: John Wheeler

• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  Author: John Wheeler

• I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

  Author: Kim Weston

• Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

  Author: Wim Wenders

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

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• I just had an idea that went right over my head.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

  Author: Simone Weil

• We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

  Author: Chris Wedge

• Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

  Author: Alan Watts

• I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

  Author: Neale Walsch

• A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

  Author: Gordon Waller

• I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

  Author: Lila Wallace

• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  Author: Larry Wall

• I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

  Author: Murray Walker

• I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

  Author: Larry Wachowski

• I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

  Author: Paul Volcker

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  Author: A. Vogt

• When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

  Author: Swami Vivekananda

• So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

  Author: Linda Vester

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

  Author: Guy Verhofstadt

• There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

  Author: James Vega

• As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

  Author: Giorgio Vasari

• 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.

  Author: Edgard Varese

• The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

  Author: Paul Valery

• When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

  Author: Steve Tyler

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Author: Mark Twain

• I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• 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.

  Author: David Tudor

• In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

  Author: Rose Tremain

• A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

  Author: David Tredici

• Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

  Author: Simon Travaglia

• The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

  Author: June Trapp

• Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

  Author: Peter Townsend

• I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

  Author: Neil Tennant

• Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

  Author: Mick Taylor

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

  Author: Donna Tartt

• You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

  Author: Amy Tan

• So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

  Author: Ice T

• The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

  Author: Max Sydow

• It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

  Author: Larry Summers

• Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

  Author: Charles Sturt

• What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

  Author: Lusia Strus

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

  Author: Mark Strong

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

  Author: Howard Stringer

• Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• The idea of equal rights was in the air.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

  Author: Jerry Stiller

• Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

  Author: James Stewart

• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

  Author: George Stephen

• The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

  Author: Hailee Steinfeld

• To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

  Author: Richard Stallman

• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.

  Author: Terry Southern

• My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

  Author: George Soros

• My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

  Author: Peter Snell

• Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

  Author: Kate Smith

• A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

  Author: Frederick Smith

• Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• 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.

  Author: Peter Singer

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

  Author: Navjot Sidhu

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

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

  Author: Billy Sherwood

• So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

  Author: Archie Shepp

• I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

• If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.

  Author: Michael Shanks

• I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.

  Author: Will Sergeant

• But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

  Author: Amartya Sen

• But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

  Author: David Selby

• I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

  Author: Bob Seger

• The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

  Author: John Sebastian

• An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

  Author: Sean Scott

• I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

  Author: Izabella Scorupco

• Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

  Author: Franz Schubert

• No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.

  Author: John Sayles

• The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

  Author: Jennifer Saunders

• I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• 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.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  Author: Carl Sagan

• Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

  Author: Morley Safer

• The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• 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.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

  Author: Bill Russell

• When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

  Author: Rita Rudner

• Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

  Author: George Romero

• Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

  Author: Nicolas Roeg

• As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

  Author: Abraham Robinson

• Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

  Author: Maximilien Robespierre

• If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

  Author: Larry Rivers

• If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

  Author: Alan Rickman

• I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

  Author: Keith Richards

• I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

  Author: Little Richard

• Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

  Author: Donna Rice

• I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

  Author: Cecil Rhodes

• I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

  Author: Alain Resnais

• A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

  Author: Jules Renard

• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  Author: Ad Reinhardt

• Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

  Author: Scott Reed

• To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

  Author: Scott Reed

• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Author: Paul Rand

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

  Author: Marcus Quintilian

• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

  Author: Bill Pullman

• A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

  Author: Marcel Proust

• 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.

  Author: Jack Prelutsky

• The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  Author: Dennis Prager

• We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

  Author: Jane Powell

• The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.

  Author: Pete Pont

• When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

  Author: John Podesta

• John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

  Author: Donald Pleasence

• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  Author: Gary Player

• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  Author: Camille Pissarro

• A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

  Author: Franklin Pierce

• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

  Author: Jean Piaget

• The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

  Author: Elizabeth Phelps

• I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

  Author: Oscar Peterson

• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  Author: Fernando Pessoa

• Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

  Author: Roger Penrose

• 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.

  Author: Roger Penrose

• Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

  Author: Norman Peale

• I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

  Author: Alexander Payne

• The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  Author: Linus Pauling

• If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

  Author: Trey Parker

• And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

  Author: Brian Palma

• Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

  Author: Brian Palma

• If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

  Author: Brad Paisley

• We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.

  Author: Lee Oswald

• The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

  Author: George Orwell

• Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

  Author: Michael Ondaatje

• After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

  Author: Merlin Olsen

• If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

  Author: Sharon Olds

• What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

  Author: Gary Oldman

• It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

  Author: David Ogilvy

• If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

  Author: Roger Oech

• Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.

  Author: Richard O'Brien

• Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

  Author: Ed O'Brien

• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

  Author: Michael Novak

• I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.

  Author: Jeremy Northam

• I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

  Author: Jeremy Northam

• The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

  Author: Max Nordau

• There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

  Author: Peter Noone

• I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• Everything begins with an idea.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

• You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

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

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  Author: Ted Nelson

• The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

  Author: Joseph Needham

• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  Author: V. Naipaul

• For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

  Author: Michael Musto

• It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

  Author: Robert Musil

• Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

  Author: Pervez Musharraf

• With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.

  Author: George Murray

• I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

  Author: Mark Mothersbaugh

• As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

  Author: Johann Most

• I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.

  Author: Rob Morrow

• Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

  Author: Dick Morris

• The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

  Author: Dick Morris

• The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

  Author: Pat Morita

• I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

  Author: Jeanne Moreau

• An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

  Author: Thomas More

• There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

  Author: Demi Moore

• The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

  Author: Maria Montessori

• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Author: Ashley Montagu

• The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

  Author: Robert Mondavi

• I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

  Author: Jay Mohr

• The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

  Author: Issey Miyake

• I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

  Author: Radha Mitchell

• The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems.

  Author: Marvin Minsky

• My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

  Author: Robert Millikan

• I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  Author: Bette Midler

• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

  Author: James Michener

• I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

  Author: Mark Messier

• I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

  Author: Jean-Marie Messier

• He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too.

  Author: Stjepan Mesic

• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

  Author: H. Mencken

• A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

  Author: Andrew Mellon

• Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

  Author: Audrey Meadows

• I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Author: Alexander McQueen

• One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

  Author: Jim McKay

• The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea.

  Author: John McHugh

• I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

  Author: Phil McGraw

• 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.

  Author: Paul McCartney

• I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that.

  Author: Scott McCallum

• An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

  Author: Joseph McCabe

• I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.

  Author: Chris Matthews

• I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

  Author: Kathy Mattea

• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

  Author: Mary Mastrantonio

• I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

  Author: Angie Martinez

• Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

  Author: George Martin

• I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

  Author: Don Marquis

• A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

  Author: Jacques Maritain

• You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

  Author: Orison Marden

• The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

  Author: David Mamet

• The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

  Author: Stephane Mallarme

• Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

  Author: Stephen Malkmus

• The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

  Author: Bernard Malamud

• It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

  Author: Margaret Mahy

• So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

  Author: Catharine MacKinnon

• My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

  Author: James MacArthur

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