I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
Alec Baldwin

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
Jackie Collins

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
Lynn Abbey

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.
Lee Harvey Oswald

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
Karl Lagerfeld

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
Jim Harrison

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.
Joshua Homme

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
Chevy Chase

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
Arthur C. Clarke

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Arthur C. Clarke

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.
Deana Carter

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
Stephen Fry

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
Stephen Fry

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry