S Ideas Quotes

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let's see.

I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from the very first.

Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey.

There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.

We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.

Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen

I'm not always open to creative input when I have my heart set on a creative idea or a message I want to convey.

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.

If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

If you want to express your creativity, then don't choose a path where someone else tells you what to do and how to do it. Choose a path where creativity is rewarded, not punished.

When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.

Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.