All Quotes

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
‐‐ Edward Abbey

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackwell

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.
‐‐ Lynne Truss

The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
‐‐ Logan Lerman

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.
‐‐ Paul Dano

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
‐‐ Andrew Bird

The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.
‐‐ Chris Squire

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.
‐‐ Daniel Hannan

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to 'go to the kitchen' means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.
‐‐ Colin Angle

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
‐‐ Douglas Haig

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
‐‐ Cynthia Kenyon

The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.
‐‐ Roger Altman

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
‐‐ Steven Erikson

The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn't make any sense.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
‐‐ John Templeton

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert.
‐‐ Annie Jacobsen

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.
‐‐ Paul Farmer

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.
‐‐ Annie Besant

The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
‐‐ Samuel R. Delany

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.
‐‐ Michael Moore

The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
‐‐ Hank Johnson

The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.
‐‐ Evan McMullin

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we just need to work on the idea that, even out of adolescence, that it's okay to still play.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.
‐‐ Larry Page

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
‐‐ Victoria Moran

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

The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.
‐‐ Freeman Dyson

The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.
‐‐ Matisyahu

The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

The idea that Hillary Clinton wants to do to Central America what her husband did to Colombia is troubling.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.
‐‐ Ben Schott