S Ideas Quotes

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.

I'm always open to somebody else having a better idea, but I feel like, if it feels real, then people aren't thinking about it and they're just doing the acting of it.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive but that is plenty.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea.

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.