Idea Quotes

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

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

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

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.

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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

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.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

Sanctions are a bad idea.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

Consequences are unpitying.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

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.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.