Idea Quotes

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

~ Grace Hopper

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

~ Martin Freeman

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

~ Catherine Opie

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

~ John Piper

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

~ Marcus Brigstocke

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

~ Everett Dirksen

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

~ Martin Puryear

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

~ Elvis Mitchell

The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.

~ Nick Cave

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

~ Alan Watts

The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.

~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

~ Jean Piaget

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

~ Emily Vancamp

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

~ Nolan Bushnell

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

~ Leila Janah

Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.

~ Kevin Plank

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

~ Dylan Lauren

The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.

~ Ian K. Smith

If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.

~ Brandon Stanton

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

~ William Scranton

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

~ Michael Musto

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

~ Thomas A. Edison

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

~ Paul Farmer

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

~ Alex Ferguson

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

~ Mary Kay Ash

People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'

~ Gallant

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

~ Sydney Pollack

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

~ Jodie Foster

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

~ Will Smith

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

~ Brian De Palma

While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.

~ Sunny Deol

We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

~ George Lois

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

~ Jimmy Choo

In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.

~ Justin Cartwright

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

~ Isabella Bird

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

~ Peter Eisenman

I like marriage. The idea.

~ Toni Morrison

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

~ Amanda Bynes

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

~ Virginia Foxx