Idea Quotes (4539 Quotes)

The inhalation of other drugs is often the speediest way to get drugs in the body, so I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't speed the flow of alcohol's effect on the brain. I don't think that's a good idea.

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.

If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy. But if we detach its movements from that ultimate idea, if we do not see the infinite rest and only see the infi

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

It's a very cool idea. It's a way to engage the audience in a way that they can identify it.

On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

They really need something like that. A lot of times it probably wouldn't help, especially if you got an explosion, but it might help the survivors. It would be a good idea.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a Yanni was. I just thought I was in love with a Japanese man who wrote beautiful music.

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.

Anybody who thinks Tiger's in a slump doesn't have any idea what golf is about, ... I know what a true slump is. I'd love to be in Tiger's slump. There are probably 140 guys on tour who'd love to be in Tiger's slump.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

The bottom line is that if we had any idea that the teacher had any inappropriate behavior in his past, he would not have been hired here. That's the reason for the questions to flesh out problems in the past.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

If you are embracing violence, if you insist on maintaining an independent militia, if you reject the idea of coexistence, you are not a partner and we will not deal with you, ... The point is to be very clear don't try to be overly subtle on this one.

There's an idea that Kodak is not keeping up with the digital transformation. But we've actually led in terms of innovation and patents.

That's where I got the idea, because he's so heady, ... He's got a good arm, but he's not necessarily a great passer yet. He just hasn't done it.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

I think we need an idea person. It's something we've been missing for a long time.

It was an idea that just kept coming back to me, ... It's really hard to quantify. I guess God had a hand in it. But it's not as if you hear a voice. It's through circumstances. I thought about it enough over time that I felt I better check this out.

Even though it's clearly better, and I think that there's a sense that the public thinks that it's a good idea, and even though you have governors as different in their points of view as Warner and myself each agreeing that it's the right thing to do, why would the legislature pass a rule that says that they might have to have a governor succeed himself, when they have no term limits

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

The idea is to make it as easy as possible for people to enjoy rivers and learn about river systems.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

The whole idea is that she stays 11 12 and the world changes around her.

Most pieces just depict the finished product. This piece shows the beginning stages, too, and the formulation of the idea.

I haven't named them yet, but that's a cute idea.

The play is well served by the one-man format. The idea of one actor becoming 36 people encapsulates Charlotte and Doug thematically.

They offer more opportunities. There are very few deed-restricted areas in Lehigh Acres. People like the idea of having a quote-unquote neighborhood feeling.

The big thing for me is that I need an end point. I can go at it hard, with the idea that once you go to this point, you can take some time off. What I like now is there's an end point, as opposed to dragging on for 12 months and never having the point where you relax and say, 'OK, we're done for a while.

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

(Assistant coach) Kevin O'Neil came up with the idea of playing some zone. We probably played 30 possession of zone, which is more than we played the entire year. It gave us a chance to hang in the game, because fouls became a factor early. With zone, a little bit of it is pot-luck. You have to hope they miss some shots.

I don't think there is a publisher association on the planet who says, 'Oh, this is a good idea,' ... 'Trust me. I'm copying your full book, but, believe me, I'm only going to use a little bit.'

We are not seeing a huge impact on the DAX ahead of the Fed's decision tomorrow, but foreign investors had bought into the idea of reform and the risk is that they will unwind their overweight positions, which would be negative for the euro.

I think it is an understandable and pretty predictable course for him to take. Murdoch is a nervous guy. The idea that he might be missing out on something is awfully painful. But he is just dipping his toes in. Why buy these Partly because he can afford them. He's not making big bets here.

As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I had no idea. I really thought we were sharing the basketball.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

This is a time to be very diversified and avoid taking chances. Sometimes being a spectator is not a bad idea.

It's always good to have things that happen only once every 55 years. I didn't even realize I hit two triples in one inning, till somebody said it to me after the game. I had no idea. It just didn't even occur to me.

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

You have no idea. Don't think that hasn't been discussed around here a time or two since the end of the season.

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it... The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking.

The 'bubble' is a gross misnomer, a mischaracterization. The idea that we're going to see a collapse in the housing market seems to me improbable,