Quotes of: Bad-idea Keyword

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay...

Light in August

I haven't read much, but it still seems impossible to me that anyone, no matter how much he read, could've read every book in the world. There must be so many of them, and I don't mean every single book, good and bad, just the good ones. There must b...

Roberto Bolano

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, w...

Neil Gaiman

Ahmet: Where are you going? Why don't you walk the wheel with us? What is the matter my American friend? What has upset you? Oh! I know. The bad machine doesn't know that he's a bad machine. You still don't believe it. You still don't believe you're ...

Midnight Express

Marty: Why gamble with money when you can gamble with people's lives? That was a joke. All right, I'll tell you. I believe in the notion that people are innocent until proven guilty. I believe in that notion because I choose to believe in the basic g...

Primal Fear

Leonard Lowe: We've got to tell everybody. We've got to remind them. We've got to remind them how good it is. Dr. Sayer: How good what is, Leonard? Leonard Lowe: Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad. People have forgotten what ...

Awakenings

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is...

Taylor Swift

I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is *good* sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably mo...

Paycheck and Other Classic Stories

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics rememb...

The White Tiger

As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.

EMPIRE: How to Succeed with Nothing but Passion, Great Ideas and a Wealthy Family

No, it's like you get an idea in your head ... no, it's more like you get and idea in your heart.

Fin & Lady

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

The Fault in Our Stars

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

How to Get Ideas

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Robert Plant

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was j...

Kim Swift

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Anish Kapoor

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Brian Eno

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Anna Karenina

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Inkheart

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?

I'll Be Seeing You