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Ideas Quotes (page 33)

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic. Jennifer Saunders
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. Benjamin Britten
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise. Wayne Kramer
Jose Saramago quote: "The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to..."
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. Jose Saramago
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. Gerald Brenan
No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it's an artifical idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. Russell Brand
I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas. Billy Bragg
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored. Andrew Coyle Bradley
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury
Lara Flynn Boyle quote: "I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for..."
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea. Lara Flynn Boyle
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes..."
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. Elizabeth Bowen
Bill Russell quote: "The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your..."
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. Bill Russell
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. Stephen King
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. Salman Rushdie
Edward de Bono quote: "Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered...."
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. Edward de Bono

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