Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.
~ Roxane Gay
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.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
~ John Hughes
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
~ Mark Knopfler
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
~ A. R. Rahman
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
~ Hector Berlioz
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.
~ Brandon Boyd
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
~ Robert Morris
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
~ Richard Gere
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
~ Walter Benjamin
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
~ James Thomson
The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.
~ David Petraeus
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
~ Michael J. Fox
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.
~ Robert Jarvik
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
~ Charles Eames
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
~ Daniel Libeskind
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.
~ Bjarke Ingels
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
~ Mario Botta
If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.
~ Mohamed El-Erian
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
~ Valerie Trierweiler
The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.
~ Robyn Davidson
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
~ Noam Chomsky
I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.
~ Sharon Shinn
What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.
~ Grant Achatz
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
~ Ted Nugent
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
~ Richard Dawkins
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
~ Madalyn Murray O'hair
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
~ Barack Obama
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.
~ Rosa Parks
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
~ Larry Miller
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
~ Germaine Greer
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
~ Neil Labute
Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
~ Paulo Coelho
Paris is always a good idea.
~ Audrey Hepburn
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
~ Earl Nightingale
