Idea Quotes

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.