Idea Quotes (4539 Quotes)


    How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.


    Head down to a DIY store and have a look around. Try and make yourself aware of what's out there, so that when you start dealing with the professionals, you've got some idea of the materials available for the jobs you want done.

    But no, the record industry refused to embrace the idea and so what happens is, people just go ahead and do it anyway, which means there is less and less money going into the industry.



    You hate to see something like this. Our guys work closely with the Iraqi Army and the local police. This is the worst incident we've suffered here in a long time. It just reinforces the idea that we're at war and that we can't let our guard down.

    They take in items and they have to have some idea of what the value of it is for insurance purposes. People like Finder's Keepers (a company specializing in antiques) - they bring along their tools too, they have particular books they use to asses the value of something so they will bring theirs and we will have ours out - so it's the combination of the two.

    It's moving up and down. We've got an erosion of the idea that there has been massive demand destruction while ... at the same time you have got some pretty mild weather on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel'fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences.

    Mary believes that at the center of everyone is a mystery. And the idea that you can sum up a person in two hours, to say that this one event or this one person is what made such and such happen, is ridiculous.

    The students came to us ... after reading our letter, saying they understand there have been abuses and they accept that as a problem. They would just like to have an event that celebrates their four years together and the idea of a dinner cruise was agreeable to us.



    I knew immediately that this drug would have importance for psychiatry but, at that time, I would never have believed that this substance could be used in the drug scene, just for pleasure. For me it was a deep and mystical experience and not just an everyday pleasurable one. I never had the idea that it could be used as a pleasure drug.

    You know, people want someone to tell them the answer, ... They want a friend, or a teacher, or a parent - but above all I guess they just want to know. And the truth is you can't tell them, and that's a hard thing to deal with. And it's easy to get wrapped up in the idea that this person knows - that he will tell me what I need to know, what I need to live - because he means a lot to me.



    I want to make that a reality, ... The idea is to create office space in the unused portions of the station to be leased, hopefully by ING. That would provide a cash flow to Amtrak.

    As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

    After I talked to EMI, I talked to Ralph and then asked Moe to talk to the other band members. The idea was if they're going to get together to record these songs, they might as well go do some shows, so we're planning a national tour for December, and will hit most of the major cities. All of that is in the planning stages.

    It's not for the government to say that's not a legitimate trade-off to make. Canadians need to question the idea that just because something implicates health that government intervention is justified.


    I kicked out the ball a lot more than in the past, but I was wanting my teammates to make some shots. I think one time I drove and I couldn't find anyone open and I just threw the ball out of bounds. I have to have an idea of what I want to do with ball.



    Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

    As a coach, you have an idea of how you want your team to play. I think we've finally gotten to that point. It was a matter of getting to know each other, finding a whole new chemistry and mending some things.

    I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.

    The idea is that Jodie Foster is with her child and she's going back to New York from Germany with her husband's body. She loses her child on a plane, and you think, 'How can that happen' There's no record of her having brought a child onto the plane, and the captain is left wondering about whether she's telling the truth. You never really know if she's telling the truth or not.


    We just wanted to push as hard as we could. They obviously played cat-and-mouse towards the end, so the idea was to foul and steal and try to get the counter-attack to score.

    We thought they would have a good quarter but it looks like they had an excellent quarter, ... With these bookings numbers you have to toss out any idea that IBM is losing ground in services. They are probably picking up market share.


    I was greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don't think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing.

    Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.

    'A government of laws and not of men.' Adams published articles in 1774 in the Boston, Massachusetts, Gazette using the pseudonym 'Novanglus.' In this paper he credited James Harrington with expressing the idea this way. Harrington described government as 'the empire of laws and not of men' in his 1656 work, The Commonwealth of Oceana, p. 35 (1771). The phrase gained wider currency when Adams used it in the Massachusetts Constitution, Bill of Rights, article 30 (1780). Works, vol. 4, p. 230.

    It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

    We hope that really makes it easier for people and really takes away from the uproar that earn-a-buck seemed to have in 2004. This is an idea that came from hunters let's get the herd down to goal and do it in the way that's easiest from the hunters' perspective.




    The idea is to get all of this information together and then look at it from a weak-link-in-the-chain-of-preparedness perspective. If you look at how many people need shelter and then you look at potential shelters to see if they will, in fact, fail ... you can find the weak link and fix it.

    accepted his idea that the audience for a quality novel might not be large enough to support the author by means of commerce this idea is a truism today, but it was new, even revolutionary, for Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and many of their contemporaries.


    The songs that hit the radio are different from the rest of the things we do. If you just hear the singles, the crossovers, the stuff on Top 40, you get the wrong idea. When I think Top 40, I think Matchbox 20. We're definitely a rock band.



    People's attention spans are so much shorter in Las Vegas. The idea there is to see and do as much as possible in an evening - so the shows must tie in with the restaurants, clubs, bars and spas.

    Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.




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