Idea Quotes · Page 70

“Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don’t act on it.”

— Anonymous

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

— Swami Vivekananda

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

— Wyndham Lewis

My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well.

— Eli Manning

If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

— Lewis Thomas

I get so many people coming up to me being like, Aahhh! And I'm like, what the hell? I'm just me!

— Jorja Smith

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

— Trinny Woodall

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

— Michael C. Hall

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you…

— Damon Lindelof

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with…

— Michael Beck

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get…

— Andie MacDowell

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in…

— Tom Stoppard

I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part…

— Kurt Sutter

I've been stopped a few times by people who want to say, 'Hi.' But I'm an introverted person, and the idea that…

— Maria Bamford

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should…

— Gloria Steinem

I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means…

— Waris Ahluwalia

Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came…

— Suzanne Collins

The idea behind the Anti Tour was people asking me how I would top the 'Aphrodite' tour... I thought the best option…

— Kylie Minogue

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of…

— Clark Gregg

I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desirable Man of 2012. Frankly, I…

— Arjun Rampal

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do…

— Nancy Werlin

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in…

— Italo Calvino

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a…

— Elmore Leonard

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

— Ridley Scott

“Send a solid idea to beyond this universe! A neighbour universe will soon be existed.”

— Toba Beta

“It's amazing the things that seem a good idea at the time.”

— Terry Pratchett

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

— Robert Frost

“I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m doing it anyway.”

— Ayoub Imilouane

The idea of acting on the first 'Halloween', it didn't really apply to my eventual work, working with actors.

— Nick Castle

A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all.

— Michael Jackson

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

— Marc Randolph

I sort of have blind faith that my life resembles other people's.

— Eva Victor

What we really need to look at is gender fluidity and the idea that gender can be customised however you want.

— Hari Nef

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

— Celeste Ng

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

— Alex Turner

I like and respect the idea of people sticking with their friends.

— Michael Capuano

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

— Elbert Hubbard

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

— Chris O'Dowd

Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that.

— Mooji