Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and…

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

— Oscar Wilde

“Evil is not an abstract concept. It lives. It has a form. It stalks. It is too real.”

— Tom Dooley

“I don't know , Adam! You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Idea is an abstract concept human physically created.”

— Joey Lawsin

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

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

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

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

— Karl Kraus