Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea..

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice..

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy..

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization fro….

You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson....

The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we a….

Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't….

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas..

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written.

I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state… I used to take long solit….

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something.

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two p….

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas..

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing..

Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctr….

I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just ca….

It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's live….

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent..

You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now ….

Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've n….

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no mat….