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Quotes About Idea

I struck upon this kind of crazy idea that I was going to go to New York and stop 10,000 people on the streets and take their portrait and create kind of a photographic census of the city.
~ Brandon Stanton
New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.
~ Paloma Elsesser
Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.
~ Jonathan Anderson
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.
~ Bernard Beckett
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
~ Jess Walter
Hollywood, they love everything, but they move like molasses. They'll option anything - the worst idea in the world will get optioned just because they want to keep the other person from getting that idea.
~ Brian Azzarello
As we wrote 'Book 1,' before the audience had ever laid eyes on Korra and Asami, it was an idea I would kick around the writers' room... The more Korra and Asami's relationship progressed, the more the idea of a romance between them organically blossomed for us.
~ Bryan Konietzko
'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.
~ David Ayer
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.
~ Pete du Pont
I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.
~ Jeremy Thomas
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
~ John Boorman
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
~ John Gunther
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
~ Nia Vardalos
When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
~ Verite
I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.
~ Richard Dawkins
A metaphor carries an idea from one area of thought to another. Furniture can have feminine legs; a flower is the day's eye (daisy); an error glares at you; drinks are soft; cash is hard; our lives have a spring and an autumn.
~ Unknown
The visionary behind this idea was a Polish immigrant named Paul Baran.
~ Tom Wheeler
Here was a remarkable admission of Jamaican weakness, as well as a revealing disclosure that the sugar gentry were as afraid of an idea as they were of knives.
~ Unknown
Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even didn't even realize they had forgotten.
~ Tove Jansson
Your fashion plan was nothing compared to my brilliant plan," James said. "I came up with the idea to hire someone to capture Pikachu for us. "Meowth read a magazine article about a kid who was great at capturing Pokémon," James continued. "A kid called Snap. "But like always, Meowth made a mistake. Snap was good at capturing Pokémon — on film. He was a photographer, not a Pokémon trainer.
~ Unknown
Who wants to go hunting?" Tsunami nearly shouted. "I know I do! Great idea, Tsunami! No arguing with the Head of School; off we go!" She shot off the ledge and whooshed away into the clouds. Carnelian snorted. "I guess that discussion is over," she said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
AHA!" Peacemaker suddenly declared. "Have an idea! Super good one! Going to take a NAP! Like a RAINWING! YAY!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
be the idea dragon and I can be the WHAM BAM SHOVE A PINEAPPLE UP HIS SNOUT dragon!
~ Tui T. Sutherland