Quotes of: Idea Keyword

Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare - creepily peculiar.

Furry Friends

... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out...

A Familiar Rain

what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.

The Fault in Our Stars

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

Glass Girl

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Having ideas is like getting fishing net; you must cast it. The broader you cast it, the greater your likelihood of achieving more!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.

How I Came to Sparkle Again

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.

Home Front

Oh.” Timmie gave Bones a shy peek. “Are you Cathy’s brother?” “Whatever would give you the idea that I’m her damn brother?” Bones snapped.

Halfway to the Grave

I dislike the idea of a murderer employing children,' said Holmes darkly. ‘It is, I agree, bad for their morals, and interferes with their sleep.’ ‘And their schooling,’ added Holmes sententiously.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan in Fargranther; the propellant of an unheard of, forgotten, impossible, and by all accounts, damned idea.

The Black Banner

Try your ideas. You might surprise yourself.

Bitten by the Business Bug: Common Sense Tips for Business and Life from a Teen Entrepreneur

Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

Blindness

A brick could be used as bait for the vampire shark. Since nobody’s ever seen a vampire shark, let alone caught one, I think it would be unreasonable to dismiss the idea entirely. 

Brick

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right