Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves…

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific…

— Asa Gray

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

— Olivier Theyskens

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

— Ethel Waters

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

— Little Richard

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

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