Idea Quotes

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.

I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea.

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.