Idea Quotes

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea to life.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

I seriously love to cook... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade pasta, Cavatelli and Ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.