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Idea Quotes


"It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice."


"No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas."


"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."


"I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl."


"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."


"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."


"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?"


"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."


"I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea."


"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."


"I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all."
Idea,


"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."


"The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights."


"My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on."


"It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares."
Idea,


"This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning."


"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."


"This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams."


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


"Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are."
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