Quotes of: Big-idea Keyword

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Charles Simic

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

Irwin M. Jacobs

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Edward de Bono

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3.

Brian Eno

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Bill Russell

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

Gene Simmons

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

John C. Polanyi

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Jose Saramago

If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.

David Belasco

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

Demetri Martin

I think God is such a good idea that if God didn’t exist, we’d have to invent God.

John Green

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

John F. Kennedy

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

Kevin J. Anderson

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.

Anita Shreve

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

Britt Ekland

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Gustav Stresemann

[about to jump onto a subway train] John McClane: This is a bad idea.

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

[from trailer] Will Rodman: Look, you have no idea of what you're dealing with!

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

The Judge: I want nothing. Valentine: Then stop breathing. The Judge: Good idea.

Three Colors: Red