Idea Quotes
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Isaac Newton
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I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?
Walter Bradford Cannon
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Victor Hugo
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Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so... it was over 12 million a year, now it's less than 6 million a year. We have a clear path to get that under 3 million a year and we know what to do. And this generation of young Africans is a very large group.
Bill Gates
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
Nolan Bushnell
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For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The idea of celebrity is becoming more and more appealing to people.
Brian McGinn
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You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.
Evan Peters
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That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
Milton Avery
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Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
Alex Kozinski
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It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.
Bill Gates
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I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.
Ezra Koenig
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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
Thomas A. Edison
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I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.
Eugene Puryear
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My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.
Ellen Langer
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I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
Stockard Channing
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On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.
Harry S Truman
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Emile Chartier
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What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
Michael Kinsley
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I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.
Edgar Allan Poe
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If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.
George Stroumboulopoulos
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The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.
Clive Rowe