Idea Quotes · Page 78

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

— Douglas Coupland

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

— Nana Mouskouri

In America, if I'm not at an ice rink, nobody knows who I am.

— Auston Matthews

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

— Ian Schrager

I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.

— Edgar Wright

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

— Aaron Swartz

I'd love to see myself on sale in shops. It tickles me, does the idea of me being marketed.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

— Alanis Morissette

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't…

— Timothy Noah

“There are three people you need to be great in life ; the path maker , the burden bearer and the dream maker .”

— Osunsakin Adewale

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a…

— Paul McEuen

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to…

— Ogden Nash

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning…

— Andrew Bird

We knew we'd never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the…

— James Frank

'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy…

— Chris Van Allsburg

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the…

— Michael Redhill

I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never…

— Lauren Bacall

This funny little film we did called 'Sharknado' has caused so much buzz, I would have never imagined. It's literally caused more…

— Cassie Scerbo

Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across…

— Ed Miliband

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates…

— Noam Chomsky

My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he…

— Marvin L. Cohen

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I…

— Martin Amis

To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to…

— John Dewey

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

— Greil Marcus

I hate the idea of people thinking they are better than someone else.

— Edith Bowman

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

— Kevin Costner

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

— Brian Eno

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

— Marvin Olasky

Here's a random idea, just out of the blue. How about you fall for me, As hard as I fell for you?

— Xuan Ta

It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

— Melvyn Bragg

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

— Candice Millard

The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.

— Ashley Wagner

I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.

— Ann Makosinski

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

— Ian Hunter

The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.

— Gina Miller

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

— John Lee Hooker

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

— Stanley Kubrick

When you pitch a half-baked idea it's so easy for someone to pick it apart and hate on it.

— Cory Barlog

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

— Illeana Douglas