S Ideas Quotes

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.

The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid.

I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is.

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnon’s unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena of pure thought.

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

If I lose control, you'll be the first to know." "I'm quite perturbed by the idea.

I have no clear idea about this development, however, I have full faith in the government's peace talks committee. I suggest TTP choose its representatives from among its own leadership

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.

I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.

I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

but the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable.

I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.

I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.

I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

The future that I see celebrates those types of like-minded ideals and ideas. I don't know what's coming, but I know that we're not going to get knocked out so easy.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.