If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.
~ Christian Louboutin
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
~ Gustav Stickley
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
~ Helen Rowland
Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.
~ Craig Bruce
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
~ Jean Ingelow
My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.
~ Jessica Ennis
I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.
~ Jennifer Aniston
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.
~ Susan Orlean
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
~ Rita Rudner
An idea is salvation by imagination.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.
~ Cher Wang
I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
~ Carly Rae Jepsen
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
~ Dirk Benedict
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
~ José Ortega Y Gasset
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
~ James Anthony Froude
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
~ Arnold H. Glasow
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.
~ Steven Wright
I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.
~ Alanis Morissette
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
~ Dean Kamen
Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
~ Nick Harkaway
Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.
~ Graham Mctavish
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
~ Jennifer Pahlka
You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
~ Sandra Day O'connor
I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.
~ Johnny Kelly
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.
~ Jeremy Lin
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
~ Ingvar Kamprad
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
~ Woody Allen
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
~ Louis L'amour
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.
~ Tom Stoppard
The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.
~ Reza Aslan
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
~ Nigel Farage
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
~ Martin Jacques
The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
~ Boris Johnson
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
~ Garrett Morris
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
~ Brendan Gill
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
~ David Lynch
