Quotes About Idea

I liked the idea of being one of the foundations for Coach Bennett's program and trying to revive UVa basketball.

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

You can't think of a franchise from day one. It starts with the audience accepting the idea.

I went to Dave Eggers with this idea of doing a movie about a guy going through some sort of Frank Capra-esque journey.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

So she had looked in on Mark, reading his correspondence with his copy of The Times airing on a chair-back before the fire - for he was just the man to retain the eighteen-forty idea that you can catch cold by reading a damp newspaper.

Any suggestion that what is offered in that marketplace should at least be an idea rather than a raw appeal to passion is met with cries of Censorship! Those who cry the most loudly, however, are not always concerned to preserve freedom of discussion. More often, discussion is what they want to prevent, and they have discovered that reciting the ritual word censorship is an effective way to do it.

A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.

people who live out there lives with a single fixed idea: Get them! It was a dangerous universe where such ideas were allowed to float around freely. Good civilizations took care that such ideas did not gain energy, did not even get a chance for birth. When they did occur, by chance or accident, they were to be diverted quickly because they tended to gather mass.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

Carl Page had his own idea about how to go about it. He posited that procedures contained in Robert's Rules of Order, a late-nineteenth-century manual for running effective meetings, could provide the basis for building AI.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

I'm sure Roddenberry in his wildest dreams never would have thought he would have gotten five TV series out of his idea.

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into your subconscious and see what happens, in a way you just can't when you're writing a novel.

You don't want to throw out a good idea and have nobody get excited about it. It takes the wind out of your sails.

I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.

When I heard the idea of a Slayer wine, I tasted the wines they suggested for us. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical at first before I tasted it, but once I tried it, I thought, 'You know what? This is actually really good. A really fruity and round type of flavor for a red wine.' It's very flavorful and tasted awesome!