Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.

— Geert Wilders

“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits of the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

— Mason Cooley

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

— C. L. R. James

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas…

— Andrew Stanton

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error…

— Matt Gonzalez

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up…

— John Carmack

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by…

— Douglas Kennedy

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

— Martha Roby

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,…

— Amy Sedaris

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

— Karl Kraus