Idea Quotes (4539 Quotes)

Regardless of what this legislation as a whole will cost, the idea is that it is going to save us money in the end. What illegal immigration costs us each year is overwhelming. That is something we can all agree on.

I think this was a good idea. It allows our pitchers to get their arms ready for scrimmaging when practice starts.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

One of the things I like most about doing a television series is that I really don't have any idea what is going to happen, ... I love that.

I'm not even looking at his grades. What is so impressive about Patrick is he's articulate, he's a clear thinker. He gets an idea, it crystalizes and then he knows how to pursue it,

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Men die but an idea does not.

The 'Chrome Couture' spot is one of the boldest Cadillac has ever done, linking the vehicle's dramatic presence and bold design to an idea and lifestyle. This Super Bowl spot positions Escalade as the star and showcases it as the beginning of the next phase of Cadillac's ongoing product renaissance.

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

I thought it was a good time to raise the idea of using fear to stifle political debate. The real teeth of journalism has been missing recently but there is still some good journalism out there.

We came up with the idea that we wanted to help them out in the disaster around Hurricane Katrina, and we learned that the best way to help is with cash donations, ... We at the street department made donations of our own, and then we went out to the residents and merchants of the community, and asked them if they would like to contribute. No one turned us down. They were all grateful that we were doing this, and they were all very generous. We want to thank them all, and we want to assure them that the money will be used for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

I want to share something with you The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1 Cover for me. Number 2 Oh, good idea, Boss Number 3 It was like that when I got here.

He told her he fell from the sky and lived. She took a deep breath and believed him, because of her father's faith in the myriad and contradictory possibilities of life, and because, too, of what the mountain had taught her. Okay, she said, exhaling. I'll buy it. Just don't tell my mother, all right The universe was a place of wonders, and only habituation, the anaesthesia of the everyday, dulled our sight. She had read, a couple of days back, that as part of their natural processes of combustion, the stars in the skies crushed carbon into diamonds. The idea of the stars raining diamonds into the void that sounded like a miracle, too. If that could happen, so could this. Babies fell out of zillionth-floor windows and bounced. There was a scene about that in Franois Truffaut's movie L'Argent du Poche...She focused her thoughts. Sometimes, she decided to say, wonderful things happen to me, too.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

We are so awestruck (with DNA) that we don't take a moment to step back and say, 'Gosh, does it really matter in this case' There is no such thing as defense at any cost. We need not be blinded by the idea that DNA is conclusive on the question of guilt or innocence.

We hope that every show gives children an idea of what to play when the TV is off,

An educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavior habits very young on matters of money. I get calls every day from people who are in a financial hole.

I mean homes are very easy to build and buy. But I think that the idea of saving for stocks is a hard thing that people in this country have embraced.

It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt like the right idea. Everybody thought I was crazy.

I e-mailed him that the UW-systems were accepting people who've been displaced and you could come over to Oshkosh and be my assistant. This is at least keeping him involved in the idea of getting to medical school.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it

This'll be great for the boy or girl who wins. They could be larger than life looking back on this one day as something that got them started. It's a great idea.

After I finished in Washington ... the idea of doing something full-time again became very attractive.

What Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise - to add my caricature of one of the wonders of the world to those which I see here No - I give up the idea as a vain attempt.

All the good growth is in the forecasts, in the idea that financial conditions have eased. But we've seen that doesn't always turn into actual good growth.

With how brutal we were in San Jose and how dead we were, I made up my mind almost before we had our talks. But that definitely reinforced the idea.

I think that's a bad idea. I would say I'd rather be traded.

We like the idea of having a three middle blocker rotation. Teams with depth are harder to prepare for.

We have no idea. That's the investigation.

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

It's just something I enjoyed. I loved the idea of one-on-one. You can't blame on anyone but yourself.

They've been to four straight bowls. And they come in here with the idea that they can swing for the long ball and take every cut and opportunity to beat us, any unusual play or anything that will work for them.

He was right. I could have brought the idea to a million other people, and we wouldn't be talking about a great show.

It's been a long time coming, but I think this group has proven they are one of the top teams in the nation and that they deserve to be there. We're going down with the idea of having a good time, but when it's game time, we need to be ready to play. With

I didn't just want to make an abstract ballet. I wanted to create an idea. I came up with the theme of a poet, an artist or a musician searching for inspiration from a muse, from a beautiful woman.

I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

If its studded with diamonds thats one thing, but crystals People like the idea that theyre buying this subversive luxury, a thrilling decadence,

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

I don't know what he's going to do with the Baseball Classic. I have no idea.

I think it was important for all of the coaches from the high schools come out. I think that we need to let the superintendent know I don't have a problem with the idea, I just thing some of the specific issues need to be brought to his attention.

I was raised with the idea that the word hate is extremely strong. So it might be OK to hate Adolf Hitler. It's OK to hate Satan. These are acceptable figures to whom the word hate can apply. I would proudly wear the badge of hater of many of Bush's policies. But the man I don't like him, but hate him

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

We're in the ballpark. None of us likes the idea of a tax increase. But at the same time, we're trying to make sure we're finding the means to provide the best services we can. When I walk the district, people say over and over again that they want more police officers.

Finally, in the short term it's really obvious. People need to hear about my book, and if they've found out about it and buy it, I make money. The net cost of eBook distribution from my website is approaching zero. With half a million downloads of Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom , it doesn't matter if my conversion rate is a tiny percentage, it's still doing incredibly well in physical sales. The first print run of 10,000 was sold out in months, and so was the second print run. The hardcover was twice the size of a normal run, and it's on it's second run as we speak. The numbers are modest on the scale of the Internet, but that gives you an idea of what the stakes are in science fiction publication. To raise the stakes, you need to go outside the traditional realm. If I rely on just the bookstore sales, I won't make a living. Putting it online does not put my livelihood at risk, you make a living finding new ways to do business.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

I'll miss the idea of 400 people coming together for such a short period of time. They arrive and then just start creating theater.