Idea Quotes

9651 Idea quotes by 5432 unique authors

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one. — Lord Byron
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing… — Lady Gaga
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality… — Kofi Annan
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared. — Georges Braque
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the… — Phil Donahue
Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you. — John Spence
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments… — Henry David Thoreau
We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells… — Teresa of Avila
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same… — Frank Sinatra
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. — Jim Hightower
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought… — Phillips Brooks
I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't… — Floyd Dell
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild. — Tina Weymouth
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought… — Paul McCartney
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. — Zach Braff
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been… — Daniel Craig
I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by… — August Wilson
Marta was watching the football game with me when she said, "You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group… — Jack Handey
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling. — Walter Goodman
For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus… — Chang-Rae Lee
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. — Walker Evans
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. — David Antin
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to… — David Antin

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