Idea Quotes · Page 68

“Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.”

— Don Maruska

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no…

— Alexa Ray Joel

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

— William James

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

— H. L. Mencken

Strictly' really opened my eyes to the idea of performing in front of a lot of people.

— Joe Sugg

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

— Jill Abramson

“I have no idea where I’m going. Or even how I’m going to get there.”

— Janet Gurtler The Truth About Us

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

— Simon McBurney

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to…

— Roger Scruton

Everything has always been so organic for me; I have no idea what I would be doing if it wasn't for music.…

— MO

The whole point of cryopreserving only one's head is based on the idea that one can simply grow in the laboratory an…

— Aubrey de Grey

The idea of the U.S. as a corporation is more than a thought experiment. It's a way to reposition our approach to…

— Mary Meeker

The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don't include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in…

— Jenna Wortham

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government…

— Steve Earle

“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with…

— Margaret Atwood

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea!…

— Mickey Rooney

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to…

— Jeff Greenfield

Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet.…

— Colin Angle

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't…

— Noam Chomsky

I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one…

— David Ulevitch

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought…

— Joseph Jarman

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't…

— Richard Matheson

When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni,…

— Herbie Hancock

The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the…

— Phil Plait

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

— Thomas Bangalter

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do…

— Ethel Waters

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

— Ziad Doueiri

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

— Charlie Kaufman

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

— John Connolly

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

— Julio Cortazar

As a quarterback, you want to have an idea of what everyone is doing and be able to help everyone out.

— Daniel Jones

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

— A. N. Wilson

I love the idea of creators having leverage and control.

— Jack Conte

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

— Nigel Farage

I think martial arts, when it's practiced with a complete idea, is a metaphor for life.

— Rickson Gracie

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

— Robbie Kay

Nearly everybody, when they first meet me, seems to have this sense of trepidation.

— Deborah Meaden

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

— Holly Hunter

We can embrace the idea of a North Carolina that's truly for all of us.

— Roy Cooper

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

— A. R. Rahman