Idea Quotes
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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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I was keen on the idea of being famous. From as long as I can remember, I danced around the kitchen. I would dance around and sing and pretend that one day, somebody would break down from the big places and maybe wander over to our house to see if they could borrow our phone. They'd look in the window and see me prancing around and say, 'We found a star!' Beyond that, which is totally a kid dreaming, I was never under any belief that what we were doing was leading toward something. There was never any sort of formula.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
