Idea Quotes

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.