Idea Quotes · Page 59

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

— Nigel Farage

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

— Woodrow Wilson

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that…

— Robert Penn Warren

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

— John Cameron

With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

— Alan Cumming

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

— Paul Rand

No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

— Robert Fortune

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was…

— Simon Callow

Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an…

— Willy Ley

Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to…

— Esha Gupta

The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing…

— Paul Theroux

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

— Charles H. Townes

When you look at the runway now, the girls are 15 and 16 years old with no knowledge of clothes, no idea…

— China Machado

One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk…

— Steven Holl

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when…

— David Morrissey

There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea…

— E. L. Doctorow

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows…

— Tod Machover

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job.…

— Christopher Abbott

I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given control, I would really…

— Neill Blomkamp

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the…

— Simon McBurney

I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the…

— Kim Edwards

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea,…

— Giancarlo Esposito

“We have to face the idea that we're completely nobody right now”

— Ariel Seraphino

“Let your dream becomes ideas and ideas become solutions.”

— Adeleke Aishat - Tashia

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

— Martin Freeman

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

— Nancy Gibbs

“Sólo porque algo no sea buena idea no significa que no debas hacerlo -Elizabeth”

— Lani Diane Rich

God bless Jackie Briskey for hiring me back then when I had no idea what I was doing.

— Justin Hartley

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

— Lord Kelvin

The central idea of America is that we boldly declare the self-evident truths that all men are created equal.

— Mike Johnson

I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

— Domhnall Gleeson

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

— Andy Rooney

“Yet I am stuck in the idea of romance, a dreamer; I want to actually fall in love with a man, then…

— Ottilie Weber

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

— Kurt Russell

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

— Mike Shinoda

“War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.”

— Toba Beta

It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

— Victor Vasarely