Idea Quotes · Page 75

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

— Nikola Tesla

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

— John Higgins

As a young manager, I had no idea what it meant to be a chef.

— Roy Choi

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americans care about.

— Ann Coulter

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

— Mary Mouser

“I shuffled to the back. ‘You there—new girl. I can’t see you.’ Precisely: that had been the idea.”

— Joss Stirling

When you come up with a good idea, you dont have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

— Don Cornelius

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

— John Ashbery

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of…

— Katee Sackhoff

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly…

— Trevor Paglen

For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a…

— Biz Stone

My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.

— Alison Moyet

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am…

— Tom Baker

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college…

— Blake Shelton

I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real…

— Clay Shirky

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way…

— Barry Gibb

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort…

— Xavier Rudd

I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that…

— Neal Adams

From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was…

— Michael Mina

An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule…

— James D. Watson

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful…

— David Tennant

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for…

— Ray Bradbury

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an…

— John Ortberg

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

— Paulo Coelho

At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.

— Michael Gerber

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

— Mark Leyner

“But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current”

— Suzanne Collins

You may not be societys idea of perfection,Doesn't mean you're not my idea of perfection

— Jasmine T

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.

— Paul Dano

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

— Damien Hirst

If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.

— David Grann

“My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.”

— Amit Kalantri

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

— Ridley Scott

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

— Richard Karn

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

— John Mulaney

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

— Shaheer Sheikh

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

— John Wayne

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

— Ro Khanna

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

— Jeremy Hardy