Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Woody Allen

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
Woody Allen

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

My idea of fast food is a mallard.
Ted Nugent

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
George W. Bush

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan Watts

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

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Rita Rudner

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
David Ogilvy

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
Richard Bach

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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