All Quotes

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
‐‐ Hailee Steinfeld

The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.
‐‐ Annie Besant

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
‐‐ Jon Voight

The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.
‐‐ Lexa Doig

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
‐‐ Christian Lacroix

The idea of service leads to community.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.
‐‐ Brie Larson

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.
‐‐ Liam Gallagher

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.
‐‐ DJ Qualls

The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.
‐‐ George Packer

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
‐‐ Nick Cave

The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot.
‐‐ Howlin' Wolf

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?
‐‐ Graham Swift

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.
‐‐ Denise Mina

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.
‐‐ Lexa Doig

The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
‐‐ Neil Postman

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.
‐‐ David Ramsey

The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.
‐‐ Chance The Rapper

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.
‐‐ Luc Montagnier

The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.
‐‐ Jane McGonigal

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
‐‐ Randall Kennedy

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
‐‐ David Amram

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

The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.
‐‐ Steve Burns

The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The idea of the U.S. as a corporation is more than a thought experiment. It's a way to reposition our approach to long-term problems. What would U.S.A. Inc. be worth? Who would want to buy its shares?
‐‐ Mary Meeker

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.
‐‐ Robert Delaunay

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.
‐‐ Mark Strong

The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

The idea of trust-fund guys who live in Brooklyn in their 30s is really interesting to me. There's a time and a place where that kind of bohemian lifestyle is appropriate, soon after college, in your 20s. But there are people still living that many years later; they haven't evolved to the next phase.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
‐‐ Edward Tufte

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
‐‐ Joichi Ito

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.
‐‐ James Vincent McMorrow

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.
‐‐ Jack Dorsey

The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

The idea of uploading a video that the whole world had access to made me nervous.
‐‐ Bethany Mota

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
‐‐ Dan Scanlon

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.
‐‐ Gerald Vizenor

The idea of viewers getting invested in a series is that you're getting invested in the reality of these characters' lives that, in fact, don't have an ending.
‐‐ Darren Star

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

The idea of what's acceptable and what's shocking, that's where I investigate. I mean, you can't be on 'Top Gear,' where your only argument is that it's all just a joke and anyone who takes offence is an example of political correctness gone mad, and then not accept the counterbalance to that.
‐‐ Stewart Lee