Ideas Quotes

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

Steve Martin
- Years
- Audience
- Response
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

Willem de Kooning
- Artist
- Matter
- Given

I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.

Jim Gaffigan
- Shows
- Found
- Theater
God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

Bob Goff
- God
- Attention
- Plans
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

Alexandre Dumas
- Ideas
- Connection
- Sadness
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Confucius
- Writing
- Words
- Ideas
He didn't want her the way he generally wanted women, to feel them under him, to turn them over, turn them again, open them up, break them, step on them, and crush them. He didn't want her in order to have sex and then forget her. He wanted the subtlety of her mind with all its ideas. He wanted her imagination. And he wanted her without ruining her, to make her last.

Elena Ferrante
- Women
- Imagination
- Sex
I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas and that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.

Michel Gondry