Idea Quotes (4539 Quotes)


    We'll probably make those cuts today, ... We'll meet late into Sunday evening here and keep evaluating and obviously get an idea of who is going to be healthy enough to play against Houston.

    I don't think any of us wants the season to end right now. Where am I going on vacation I had no idea. I haven't even thought of that. I think we enjoy being together, and that's the difference between then and now.



    The idea is there's not a whole lot of places to ride. He wants to race, so we're going to try to make a place to race. I'm not planning on making a penny off the track. As long as I break even, I'll be happy.


    Bond prices rose because the market was excited at the idea that the number of further rate hikes needed would not necessarily be large. The market is thinking that the Fed has two more rate hikes to go.

    The Chicago number showed manufacturing has been picking up in the Midwest. That bodes well for the national number Monday, all of which supports the idea of a recovery, which is what the market has been betting on.


    The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to be solved, and it involves concepts around which there is not a major consensus.


    Nobody in hockey should be making that much money. There's no TV revenue to speak of, and why people think there is, I have no idea. I have a problem with everybody begrudging a group or individual that has paid 100 to 150 million for something making 2, 3, 4 percent on his money. To begrudge that and say the owners are lying ... well, I've been on both sides, and I can tell you the owners aren't lying.



    I don't want to have to fight this in Colorado but we will if necessary. I can't believe that the court would support the idea that killing someone is a legitimate use of controlled medications.


    The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.


    The idea is to essentially ensure that when companies build new technologies, they build in the capability for police to do what they've always done on the previous technologies,

    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 people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.


    We're thrilled with what we heard today from our patrons. They echoed the same sentiments, that it had the feel of a lavish, high-energy sports book. And they enjoyed the idea of being pampered. This is a new paradigm, a new presentation of racing that we think others will follow.



    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.

    When you think of crafting, the sort of old-fashioned notion of crafting, they just busted all those images. In a lot of ways, this is the ultimate DIY project. They found each other, they had an idea, a friend produced the show for them, and they basically delivered the show to us. When we saw it, we thought they had such fabulous chemistry.

    There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emotional, moral, mysterious, spontaneous, abandoned, focused on a particular person, and stereotypically feminine. Baroque sex is pop, playful, funny, experimental, conscious, deliberate, amoral, anonymous, focused on sensation for sensation's sake, and stereotypically masculine. The classical mentality taken to an extreme is sentimental and finally puritanical the baroque mentality taken to an extreme is pornographic and finally obscene. Ideally, a sexual relation ought to create a satisfying tension between the two modes (a baroque idea, particularly if the tension is ironic) or else blend them so well that the distinction disappears (a classical aspiration).

    They had the right idea. But the city of Reno never really thought of itself as a ski town. And the land up here was owned piecemeal, so it just never happened.





    Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.


    You have a game plan. Not like a football game, but an idea of how you want to play, you establish it, and that's always the test when you fall behind early, to see if you can sustain what's been successful. That's kind of a test for us, to play as well as we did for 60 minutes.

    A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.


    We went into today with the idea that we were going to move up in the standings. We didn't get the chance to see where we could have finished. But it was still good to get out there and play and I'm optimistic heading into the next tournament.

    I think the idea of holding a festival and promoting graffiti as an art is OK. But it has to be promoted in a way so that people don't start thinking they can go out and do this anywhere.


    The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

    That's a good theory. We have an idea of how we want to do things, and boy, we better get there and start doing them. We know that Marcel and J.J. are two different types of player. One has been a very good college breakaway threat and the other is a good slashing, power-type runner. I think there's a role for both guys.

    This is just people hedging their bets, ... They don't want to sour the business relationship if the other side wins. It all reinforces the idea that there will be a format war, and with a format war, nobody wins.


    A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

    I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

    The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.


    This one should be lots of fun, ... especially hosted by Paul Woodiel, a man with an inquisitive musical spirit. Paul is a classical and theatrical performer and an expert in ancient and traditional fiddle music. Every year, Paul and I tackle another idea, after which Paul finds the musicians and tells the story to his eager audience.

    Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.




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