Idea Quotes

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

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

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.