Idea Quotes
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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.
Esme Raji Codell
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We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
Donald Miller
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
Olivia Culpo
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There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.
Viktor Orban
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson
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The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people of this forthcoming generation haven't had to live with, but people around my age grew up with the idea that we could all be blown up at any minute. That's also what got me into hardcore music.
Brad Warner
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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
Harvey Fierstein
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Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
Oswald Chambers
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
Kabir Bedi
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
Kami Garcia
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I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
Warren Spector
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
Yves Behar
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Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
Katha Pollitt
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
Cara Castronuova
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Garrett Morris
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
Gary Bauer
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
Caitlin Moran
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
Francesca Annis
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Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
Clark Gable