No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
Roy Lichtenstein

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
Magic Johnson

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
Sandra Bullock

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
Johnnie Cochran

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Charles Kettering

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter Bagehot

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
Jeanne Moreau

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
Jeanne Moreau

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Chris LeDoux

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Chris LeDoux

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
Herbert Spencer

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
Elliott Abrams

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Richard M. DeVos

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.
Geddy Lee

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
Tony Blair