Idea Quotes

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.