A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

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

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving Berlin

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
Richard Pryor

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
Bill Vaughan

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Norman Mailer

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

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.
Jennifer Aniston

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
Jo Brand

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Marilyn vos Savant

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
Thomas Carlyle

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
Muhammad Yunus