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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
Joe Biden

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
Bette Midler

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
Richard Branson

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
Paul McCartney

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
Paul McCartney

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Everett Dirksen

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.
Rosa Parks

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
Andrew Jackson