Idea Quotes

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
James L. Brooks

Sexy, Everybody, Marketing

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Men, Worth, Command

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

Love, Someone, Him

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
Shirley MacLaine

Love, Away, Room

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Work, Seems, Simply

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Walker Percy

Age, Great, Live

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.
Emma Watson

Sexy, Less, Wonder

I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.
Emma Watson

Night, Old, Quite

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
Jonathan Kozol

True, America, Strange

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt

Good, Bad, Artist

I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.
Julie Andrews

Life, Fun, Girl

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
Emma Watson

Love, Important, Special

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman

Men, Freedom, True

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.
Rick Perry

Work, Reality, Done

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
Suze Orman

Good, Business, Around

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Ethel Barrymore

Face, Event, Garbo

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.
Julia Roberts

Love, Yourself, Job

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
Elizabeth Bowen

Simply, Novel, Surface

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing

Love, Away, Writer

I just had an idea that went right over my head.
Lawrence Welk

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.
John Hughes

Off, Walk, Monday

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

Change, Progress, Culture

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

Woman, Difficult, Choice

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
Karl Lagerfeld

Work, Down, Put

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
Annie Leibovitz

Women, Beautiful, Down

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. Michael Straczynski

Change, Person, Imagine

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Jenny McCarthy

Wish, Might, Rise

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.
Dee Dee Myers

Become, Off, Taking

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
Christopher Nolan

Dreams, Mind, Dream

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera

May, While, Knows

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