You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in… — Jerry Reinsdorf Copy Share Image
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. — Alfonso A. Ossorio Copy Share Image
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Increasingly committed to human studies, I sought to collect several immature human oocytes from pieces of excised ovarian tissue, mature and fertilize… — Robert Edwards Copy Share Image
“I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there's an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport… — Henry Chadwick Copy Share Image
I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and… — George Miller Copy Share Image
Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than… — P.W. Catanese Copy Share Image
I have never done jewelry before so, of course, I had an idea in mind, but I needed it to be feasible… — Julia Restoin Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea… — Ron Fairly Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a… — William James Copy Share Image
The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“No me gusta nada la idea de morir. Si pudiera vivir quinientos años aceptaría y pediría: ¿No puede darme unos más?” — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs. — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy… — Eric Mayes Copy Share Image
I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
