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

• Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.

  Author: David Zucker

• Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

  Author: John Zorn

• 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

• And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• 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

• You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

  Author: William Yeats

• And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

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

  Author: Ron Wyden

• 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.

  Author: Will Wright

• 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

• As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

  Author: Peter 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

• An idea is salvation by imagination.

  Author: Frank Wright

• There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

  Author: Lee Womack

• I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

  Author: Lee Womack

• 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

• The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

  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

• I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

  Author: Niklaus Wirth

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

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

  Author: Dave Winfield

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

  Author: Robert Wilson

• I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down.

  Author: Luke 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

• You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

  Author: William Wills

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

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  Author: Montel Williams

• 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

• I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

  Author: Jonny Wilkinson

• So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

  Author: Gene Wilder

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

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

  Author: Norbert Wiener

• 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

• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• 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

• When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• 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

• I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

  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

• You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

  Author: Kim Weston

• 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

• My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

  Author: Edward 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

• On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• 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

• Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

  Author: William Weld

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

  Author: Len Wein

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

  Author: Simone Weil

• I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

  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

• Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

  Author: Andrew Webber

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

  Author: Alan Watts

• The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

  Author: Alan Watts

• The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

  Author: Alan Watts

• It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• 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

• When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

  Author: Vera Wang

• You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

  Author: John Walters

• 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

• The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

  Author: Robert Walpole

• 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 TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

  Author: David 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 have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

  Author: Jimmy Wales

• 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

• Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

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

  Author: Larry Wachowski

• The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

  Author: Voltaire

• 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

• Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

  Author: Swami Vivekananda

• 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

• I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• 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

• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

  Author: Giorgio Vasari

• 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

• I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

  Author: Jeff Vandermeer

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

  Author: Paul Valery

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

  Author: Andrew Vachss

• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

  Author: John Updike

• I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

  Author: Miguel Unamuno

• It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

  Author: Tracey Ullman

• 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

• Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.

  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 idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

  Author: Edward Tufte

• My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

  Author: Edward Tufte

• 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

• Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• 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

• When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.

  Author: Rachel True

• We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• 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

• And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like "What did you do to yourself?" I was so embarrassed.

  Author: Ashley Tisdale

• Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• 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

• The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.

  Author: Mark Thomas

• 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

• I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

  Author: John Tesh

• To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

  Author: Sheri Tepper

• Science fiction still is an idea genre.

  Author: Sheri Tepper

• 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

• The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

  Author: John Templeton

• 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

• There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  Author: Ida Tarbell

• 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

• I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• 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

• Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• 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

• I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

  Author: Sarah Sutton

• Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

  Author: Lawrence Summers

• 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

• There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• 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

• If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

  Author: Leo Strauss

• If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

  Author: Rex Stout

• The idea of equal rights was in the air.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

  Author: James Stockdale

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

  Author: Jerry Stiller

• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

  Author: Gustav Stickley

• 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

• There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

  Author: Robert 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

• We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

  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

• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

  Author: Pamela Stephenson

• 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

• The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

  Author: David Steinberg

• When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

  Author: Edward Steichen

• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• 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

• I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

  Author: Morgan Spurlock

• The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

  Author: Morgan Spurlock

• 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

• The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

  Author: Gerry Spence

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

  Author: Terry Southern

• The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

  Author: John Sousa

• Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• 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

• It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• 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

• We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

  Author: William Smith

• 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 have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

  Author: Martin Smith

• Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

  Author: Martin Smith

• It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

  Author: Mark Smith

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

  Author: Kate Smith

• People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

  Author: Jimmy Smith

• My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

  Author: Frederick 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

• I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream "secular" press has been very, very nice.

  Author: Daniel Smith

• That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

  Author: Douglas Sirk

• So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

  Author: Douglas Sirk

• 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

• I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

  Author: Isaac Singer

• You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

  Author: Bryan Singer

• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• 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

• Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

  Author: Archie Shepp

• The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

  Author: Rupert Sheldrake

• Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

  Author: Sidney Sheldon

• 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

• I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• 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

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

  Author: George Shaw

• You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.

  Author: Artie Shaw

• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• 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

• I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

  Author: David Selby

• 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

• They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.

  Author: Harry Seidler

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

  Author: Bob Seger

• I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

  Author: David Sedaris

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

  Author: John Sebastian

• Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

  Author: William Scranton

• 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

• I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• 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

• For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

  Author: Alfred Schnittke

• A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

  Author: Sally Schneider

• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

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

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• 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

• If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• 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

• The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

  Author: Graeme Saux

• Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• 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 feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting.

  Author: Gus Sant

• From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

  Author: Justin Sane

• 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

• If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

  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

• Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

  Author: Morley Safer

• The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• 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

• And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

  Author: Mark Rylance

• It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

  Author: Mark Rydell

• 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

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

  Author: Salman Rushdie

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

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