The idea of a language more simple than ours.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

— Michael Helm

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

— Helene Cixous

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

— Stromae

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

— George Eliot

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

— Edward Sapir

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

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

— Richard Quest

The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang.

— Robert Christgau

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in…

— Abraham Verghese

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

— Tyler Winklevoss

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of…

— Giorgio Moroder

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