All Quotes

The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world - it's a very exciting idea.
‐‐ Austin Seferian-Jenkins

The idea that I can touch anybody's life in any way is perfect.
‐‐ Jennifer Grey

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
‐‐ Randy Schekman

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
‐‐ Harold Prince

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
‐‐ Tracey Emin

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
‐‐ Jackson Browne

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
‐‐ Samuel West

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
‐‐ Gail Collins

The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win, flourish, and benefit, is intrinsic to business and even to capitalism itself, properly understood. But people don't understand it because we're not taught to think that way.
‐‐ John Mackey

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
‐‐ Norbert Wiener

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.
‐‐ Theodore Dalrymple

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.
‐‐ Steve Case

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
‐‐ David Riesman

The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
‐‐ Steve Earle

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
‐‐ Niklaus Wirth

The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
‐‐ Gary Wolf

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.
‐‐ Jay Parini

The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.
‐‐ David Perlmutter

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
‐‐ Jerry Falwell

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
‐‐ Victoria Moran

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
‐‐ Victoria Moran

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.
‐‐ Bob Kerrey

The idea that somebody would go to my YouTube channel and want to watch movies and then be subjected to some terrible car commercial - I don't like that.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

The idea that somehow you're going to tax the 'rich' enough to pay for quality health care for every American who doesn't have it, can't afford it or stands to lose it, not to mention for all of the undocumented aliens who receive it for free now and presumably will continue to in Obama health land, is almost laughable.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

The idea that someone is going to write me, and I'm not going to answer - I was just raised not to do that. We are the result of our upbringing, and my upbringing was very much to meet obligations... You just didn't let things go.
‐‐ Alan Furst

The idea that somewhere in the desert far away you have a CO2 absorber that's removing the CO2 from the air is an attractive one. It's a costly process that many will say is too expensive, but so are fuel cells in cars. It's a matter of political will to move this forward.
‐‐ Klaus Lackner

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
‐‐ Alex Turner

The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.
‐‐ Alan Alda

The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
‐‐ James Gray

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.
‐‐ Sigmar Gabriel

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
‐‐ John Podhoretz