Idea Quotes
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson, because they defined what a president is. They are the idea, and you can't be better than the idea.
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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 dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
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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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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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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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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
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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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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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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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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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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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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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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 don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.
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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
