S Ideas Quotes

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring.

The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels.

Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

I said I deserved a home fight, either Philly or Puerto Rico, since I'm always going to someone else's place to fight. Everyone thought it was a great idea to go back to Puerto Rico.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

Does Uncle Bob have anything?" "I heard he has an STD." "I mean on the women." "Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs.

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.