When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
When I first went to L.A., I really hated it. I had this preconceived idea of what it would be like. You… — Sophie Lowe Copy Share Image
We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security,… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never… — John Oates Copy Share Image
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, 'The Franchise,' I remember the NFL was just starting… — Shane Douglas Copy Share Image
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my… — Anohni Copy Share Image
I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going… — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Great things take time. Your business idea is one of those things. If it’s taking time, it means your idea is trying… — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder. — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock,… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room -… — Stefan Hell Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Thy funniest thing that I could ever think of is, typing is kind of like playing an piano. When you think things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water,… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
I guess my whole thing has always been that nobody knows you except for yourself and nobody knows your story except for… — Mary Cain Copy Share Image
“An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define...or… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
