The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea…

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

— Karl Kraus

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

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

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

— Tyler Winklevoss

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

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

— Robert Christgau

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

— Richard Quest

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

— Piet Oudolf

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

— Martha Roby

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

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting…

— Peter Morgan

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

My mom had no idea she was having twins.

— Brie Bella

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And…

— Robert Wilson

I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research…

— Anne Waldman