S Ideas Quotes

One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.

I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.

It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Well I loved the idea of playing a girl who dresses up like a dude.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

I had no idea how many famous people [Andy Cohen] have unintentionally and hilariously insulted of late: Charlie Rose, his cousin Amber Rose, Tori Spelling. . . . the list goes on and on.

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.

The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

This is not my fault! Any ideas?” “You don't have a white flag, do you?

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.