Idea Quotes (4539 Quotes)


    In Salt Lake City, a lady said, 'There's a hurricane in Florida,' and I said, 'Oh, I'm glad I'm not going to Florida,' and I didn't think any more about it, ... I didn't have any idea that a hurricane was even approaching when I got there. I wasn't aware of it, not at all.







    I really want people to walk away from the book with the idea that they can become kind of an intuitive cook. Instead of relying on the mathematics of, you know, 23 of a cup of this and a cup of this, to really be able to feel the recipe.



    Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

    We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

    If it does shed light on the idea that there's real love involved ... it's great. When two people love each other, they love each other. And people should hold on to it as hard as they can, whether it's homosexual or heterosexual.




    We said going in the idea was to not get anybody hurt and make sure that the guys we had to play broke a sweat and didn't get too stale and give our young guys an opportunity to play in a heated situation against some top players.

    Bears When you see a bear, the spot where you see it becomes instantly different from every place else you've seen. Bears make you pay attention. They keep the mountains from turning into a blur.... A woods with a bear in it is real to a man walking through it in a way that a woods with no bear is not. Roscoe Black, a man who survived a serious attack by a grizzly in Glacier National Park some years ago, described the moment when the bear had him on the ground 'He lay on me for a few seconds, not doing anything.... I could feel his heart beating against my heart.' The idea of that heart beating someplace just the other side of ours is what makes people read about bears and tell stories about bears and theorize about bears and argue about bears and dream about bears. Bears are one of the places in the world where big mysteries run close to the surface.


    I do whatever everybody else does I go to a lot of movies, spend time with my girlfriend, try to stay away from the computer. The idea of going and watching 'The Insider' or 'Access Hollywood' at the end of the day makes me want to blow my brains out.


    To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

    I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.








    This is a far cry from the unabashed snobbery that characterized places like the Stork Club. If you look at the history of restaurant design, it used to be much more tied to class distinctions, ... The idea of a totally egalitarian system would have been unthinkable.

    Human taste is complex, and I'm not sure it can be accounted for. This is one of the biggest challenges we face because preference engines are based on the idea that if we agree on three movies, we will agree on the fourth. But it often doesn't work that way.


    I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.


    Interestingly enough, when I applied here, I agreed with that policy, a lot like people here who try to fight against who they are. And I don't think that's right because the idea is perpetuated and people live in fear from their peers and live in fear of being kicked out.

    I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.


    She has acquired rights for the film and is planning to look at distribution, as a business idea. But it is too early to say how many such rights she will acquire. She felt The Last Legion was a good film and that is why she took the decision.

    It's a group of kids that came together ... and showed people that there is more basketball than hangs out in the big, power conferences. The idea of having a team in the Final Four is kind of beyond dreaming.

    Thus it was that Cooke began ascribing his writing credits to L.C., who would later turn over the money to Cooke. It may have been unethical, ... But from Sam's point of view, it was adaptive compensation. He'd been taken advantage of because of his ignorance. He set up his label and publishing with the idea of not having him or his artists taken advantage of.

    Something came up that nobody had any idea about. There is a time frame in which this will play out in the next couple of days. Shareef is a pro. He's a good guy. He's going to continue his career no matter what. Hopefully he'll have a long career. He's under contract (to the Nets). Hopefully that's the way it will stay, and he will play long time for us.


    Grace is an exceptional fighter. She's exceptional in every way ... I would say she has a similar style to 'Sugar' Ray Robinson ... guys that are quick and have the ability to move around the ring. The idea with her is to punch and move. But she's got a lot of tools in the toolbox, and is always pulling something new out and amazing me.


    If any team should have no issues and go out and play their best football, it's us. We're building a program here. That's a challenge that has to be overcome. I didn't like the idea two years ago. But I don't think our kids think, 'Oh, that's a I-AA team.' I think they think it's just another game.

    Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.




    I don't think I'll have fewer opportunities. I like the idea of getting Larry more involved in the offense. I really like the idea of the two of us in the backfield together some of the time. But I don't really see me getting fewer chances. Why would that happen



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