All Quotes

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.
‐‐ Ronald Biggs

The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the simplest possible equipment and a microscope. Biochemical approaches were not much in vogue, and running gels impossible at first.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

The idea we would create some kind of religious test for entry into the country is absolutely wrong.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
‐‐ Patrick Soon-Shiong

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
‐‐ Orson Welles

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
‐‐ Arthur Ashe

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
‐‐ Caitlin Stasey

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
‐‐ James A. Garfield

The ideal course of life is not always easy.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.
‐‐ Marc Laidlaw

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
‐‐ Sophie Swetchine

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.
‐‐ Drake

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
‐‐ Bela Karolyi

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
‐‐ Ninon de L'Enclos

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
‐‐ John M. Ford

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
‐‐ Aristotle

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
‐‐ Milton Sapirstein

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
‐‐ Edmund Husserl

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.
‐‐ Atifete Jahjaga

The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
‐‐ Paramahansa Yogananda

The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
‐‐ B. F. Skinner

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
‐‐ Jules Renard

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
‐‐ Spencer Abraham

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
‐‐ Arthur Conan Doyle

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.
‐‐ Debbie Gibson

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.
‐‐ Colin Angle

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
‐‐ Feng Zhang

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
‐‐ Malcolm de Chazal

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
‐‐ Anna Howard Shaw

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
‐‐ John Zorn

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
‐‐ George Lucas

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
‐‐ Valentina Tereshkova

The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
‐‐ Karen Abbott

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
‐‐ David Lynch

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.
‐‐ Carrie Mae Weems

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
‐‐ Ted Nelson

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
‐‐ Franz Grillparzer

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
‐‐ Stella Adler