All Quotes

The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
‐‐ Dave Matthews

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
‐‐ Lloyd Dorfman

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
‐‐ Damien Hirst

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
‐‐ Clive Owen

The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
‐‐ Nick Denton

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
‐‐ Robin Williams

The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
‐‐ Feist

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
‐‐ Ali Khamenei

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
‐‐ Peter Lewis Allen

The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

The idea of introducing the Seven Seas is absolutely to challenge Aquaman on an emotional and personal level. His responsibility is unification of the world, and that just became a lot more complex when he learns about the fall of Atlantis and the splintering of the kingdoms.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
‐‐ Shawn Achor

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
‐‐ Adam Arkin

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
‐‐ Stefan Zweig

The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.
‐‐ Victoria Smurfit

The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.
‐‐ Robin Williams

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.
‐‐ Jim Rash

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
‐‐ Brandy Norwood

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
‐‐ Moon Unit Zappa

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
‐‐ John Cassavetes

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon

The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else.
‐‐ Jeffrey Hunter

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

The idea of multiculturalism, that every culture is equal - that's not objectively true.
‐‐ Steve King

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.
‐‐ Mike Scully

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.'
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
‐‐ Seymour Hersh

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.
‐‐ George Allen

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
‐‐ Frank Ocean

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
‐‐ Patti Smith

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
‐‐ Daniel Craig

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
‐‐ Robert Smith