Idea Quotes

The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

I love the idea of "the one" but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.