S Ideas Quotes

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

I've always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

We should not focus on ideas that divide us and pull us apart.

What I believe is important is that we win the battle of ideas.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do and how to practice. And we should not be lazy.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.

I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.

Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them.

I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

Just heard who made who by ac/dc and asked a ry what movie? He had no idea. Disappointed. He will be doing my laundry today.

I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.

I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea in my head and then I'll pursue it 'til I get there.

How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.

I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.