S Ideas Quotes

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse.

My mind is always racing with ideas or things I should be doing.

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

evidence without ideas is more valuable than ideas without evidence.

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

It's always a good idea to sit at the fun table.

I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

They can make the wild ideas we come up with a reality.

I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.

I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.