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Quotes About Idea

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
~ Hal Sutton
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
~ Lee Child
I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea.
~ Leinil Francis Yu
I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.
~ Matthew Lewis
There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.
~ Betty Friedan
One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.
~ Bill Bryson
Incidentally, the idea that we use only 10 percent of our brains is a myth. No one knows where the idea came from, but it has never been true or close to true. You may not use it all terribly sensibly, but you employ all your brain in one way or another.
~ Bill Bryson
Incidentally, the long-held idea that spices were used to mask rotting food doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. The only people who could afford most spices were the ones least likely to have bad meat, and anyway spices were too valuable to be used as a mask.
~ Bill Bryson
The queen also toyed with the idea of making the whole of St. James's Park private, and asked her prime minister, Robert Walpole, how much that would cost. "Only a crown, Madam," he replied with a thin smile.
~ Bill Bryson
The hour-and-a-half flight had given Nada time to get through his shock and realize this wasn't the brightest idea, being a pod-test dummy. But it was a bit too late for that. Actually, he didn't care much one way or the other. If he splatted in, so be it.
~ Bob Mayer
This was a time to prepare for the cold weather, to store up fire and wood. But in those days of the triumph of materialism, matter had become a disembodied idea, and the problems of alimentation and fuel supply took the place of food and firewood.
~ Boris Pasternak
And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice
~ Boris Pasternak
The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.
~ Brahms Johannes
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
~ Bram Stoker
Do not fear ever to think. A half thought has been buzzing often in my brain, but I fear to let him loose his wings. Here now, with more knowledge, I go back to where that half thought come from and I find that he be no half thought at all. That be a whole thought, though so young that he is not yet strong to use his little wings.
~ Bram Stoker
The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind. I'm plotting. oh? His mouth curved in a wicked grin. Do Tell. Chapter 5 pg. 50
~ Sylvia Day
Cyrion in stone was to be a fleeting concept, not a permanent condition.
~ Tanith Lee
The value of an idea is determined by how appealing the idea is to someone. If you want something desperately, you will pay desperately.
~ Ted Dekker
Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas.
~ Ted Dekker
I hardly think it wise to put the idea of flying into the heads of impressionable teenagers who are already battling the challenges of lunacy.
~ Julie Halpern
In the idea we recognize our true homeland.
~ Julius Evola
The truth is, almost every solid idea that comes from science is in some sense an abstraction rather than a 'real' thing.
~ K.C. Cole
I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.
~ Luke Roberts
There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.
~ Anthony Marra