Idea Quotes

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

I always had this idea that, 'Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.' But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.