Idea Quotes

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

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

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.