S Ideas Quotes

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Some directors are like it's their... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.

I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.

It's a good idea to not get involved with somebody that you don't trust. That's for sure.

Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum

Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.

Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.