Quotes About Ideas

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the person behind that idea.

When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how crazy they sound. I know what things sound like when you haven't actually worked on the script, so I don't go around saying some of these ideas because they just sound awful.

Democrats have bad ideas and Republicans have no ideas.

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.

I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.

It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.

Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

Jefferson had a remarkable capacity to marshal ideas and to move men, to balance the inspirational and the pragmatic.

We have seen the hard looks and heard the statements in which not each other's ideas are challenged, but each other's motives." He

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

From somewhere, in college, Pip had gotten the idea—her mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by—that the height of civilization was to spend Sunday morning reading an actual paper copy of the Sunday New York Times at a café. This had become her weekly ritual, and, in truth

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.

They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse.