I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
~By Robertson Davies ~
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
~By Annette Bening ~
We knew we?d never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen.
~By James Frank ~
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
~By Randy Newman ~
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
~By Norman Cousins ~
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
~By Magic Johnson ~
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
~By Coco Chanel ~
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.
~By Paul Kagame ~
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
~By Ansel Adams ~
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
~By Hermione Gingold ~
I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.
~By Shuler Hensley ~
The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.
~By Stephen Wolfram ~
So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.
~By Archie Shepp ~
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
~By Barack Obama ~
Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
~By Gerry Spence ~
I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
~By Wayne White ~
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.
~By Jim Capaldi ~
When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.
~By Trevor Rabin ~
I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together.
~By Sean Booth ~
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
~By Jane Rule ~
And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.
~By Jim Coleman ~
I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.
~By Jay Mohr ~
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'
~By Trey Parker ~
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
~By Murray Kempton ~
My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.
~By Deborah Bull ~
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
~By Barry Gibb ~
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
~By Damien Hirst ~
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.
~By Todd Solondz ~
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
~By Giorgio Vasari ~
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
~By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. ~
I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.
~By Michael Chabon ~
There's no good idea that can't be improved on.
~By Michael Eisner ~
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
~By Stephen Fry ~
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
~By Eric Bentley ~
I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.
~By David Lloyd ~
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
~By Alexander Fleming ~
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
~By Brian Tracy ~
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
~By Jena Malone ~
It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
~By Hal David ~
I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
~By Jewel ~
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
~By George Sand ~
Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
~By Robert Walpole ~
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
~By Alfred Loisy ~
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
~By William Peter Blatty ~
The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
~By Milton R. Sapirstein ~
It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
~By John Hench ~
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
~By Walter Lang ~
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.
~By Ayumi Hamasaki ~
Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
~By Henry Flynt ~
I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.
~By Louis Freeh ~
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
~By William Ames ~
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
~By Elvis Costello ~
If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
~By Eric Brown ~
I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
~By Leah Ward Sears ~
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
~By Carl Bernstein ~
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.
~By Leonard Orr ~
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
~By Pat Sajak ~
Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
~By Paul Farmer ~
They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea.
~By Joe Grant ~
You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
~By John McTiernan ~
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.
~By Donna Rice ~
In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
~By Karen Duffy ~
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
~By Marilyn French ~
The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
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