Idea Quotes

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
Ray Bradbury

Writing, Everything, Down

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich Fromm

Die, Bitter, Lived

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen

Good, Great, Call

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury

Best, Experience, Possible

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolution, Found, Bayonets

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

Success, Humble, Makes

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

Time, Character, Person

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.
Johnny Depp

Dancing, Scares

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Happy, Saying

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

Real, Serious, Here

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward Beecher

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
Clint Eastwood

Him, Down, Made

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison

Lies, Value, Using

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood

Men, School, Stupid

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.
Ron Paul

Home, Whole, Ourselves

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.
Mitt Romney

Serious, Around, State

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken

True, Everyone, Admitted

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
Bill Gates

Important, Rich, Poor

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken

May, Quite, Believes

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Someone, Writing

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling

Life, Fear, Rock

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas A. Edison

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Time, Whose, Invasion

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
Robert Plant

Life, Alone, Lonely

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
Jerry Seinfeld

Busy, Nothing, Everything

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine

God, Justice, Humanity

Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering, Divine

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

Giving, Serious, Around

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James

Individual, Force, Revelation

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