Idea Quotes
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The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.
Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
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One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
Evelyn Underhill
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I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)
Rachel Caine
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Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of what this guy looked like - and even more so, what he looked like as Clark Kent and as Superman. You have this whole vast audience of people who would be acutely aware of any deviation whatsoever and probably holding you to a slightly higher standard as a result.
Ben Affleck
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It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
Bill Gates
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The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.
Bill Gates
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison
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I never had this idea, 'I wanna be a solo artist.'
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
Siouxsie Sioux Siouxsie and the Banshees
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The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Michelangelo
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
George Eliot
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I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
Claudia Schiffer
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I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.
Ewan McGregor
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I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.
Jamie Cullum
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I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.
Colin Farrell
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Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
Pythagoras
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I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
Chuck Klosterman
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I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
Joshua Ferris
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From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.
Craig Newmark