Quotes of: Big-idea Keyword

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

Harland Williams

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Randall Jarrell

Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.

Robert B. Laughlin

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

Robin Ince

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Kanye West

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George W. S. Trow

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Richard Rorty

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Simon McBurney

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Arundhati Roy

The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.

Ian K. Smith

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

John Astin

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

Clive Thompson

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Ravitch

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.

Ziggy Marley

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

Bobby Flay

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

Brian Greene