S Ideas Quotes

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe he'll shoot at us again. I was hoping someone would shoot at me today. That was the first thing I said when I got up: Boy, I hope I get shot at today.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.

How can you veto an idea you haven't heard?

You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it.

Pundits are saying that President Obama is starting to lose support among his own party. To give you an idea of how bad it's gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter.

Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!