Idea Quotes

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

I just liked the idea of being engaged.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.