S Ideas Quotes

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

habit is our idea of eternity.

When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I an idea why. Wow. Oh wow.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.

And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and broken and empty.

Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.

I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea whats going to happen.

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.

The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.