Quotes of: Idea Keyword

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Persuasion

The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [...] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal of misery. But, to my mind at least, that doesn't mean it can't now bring pleasure to someone.

Quis Custodiet

A brick could be planted on a farm, in the hopes that a house will spring up come harvest. But that idea is ridiculous, because we’re in a drought, and there simply hasn’t been enough rain to yield a crop of that magnitude. 

Rick Bet Blank

The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.

Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business

Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.

Time Management for the Creative Person

If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I had no idea he thought he was funny, tried to be funny, or actually is funny until he made me laugh so hard I peed all over his feet at the urinal.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Words are all we’ve got. Besides, of course, actions. But you can’t print out and read actions. Actions also don’t carry ideas with the same ease as words.

This Book Has No Title

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Time and Free Will

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.

Ten Things I Hate about You

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

A Vintage Affair

Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It’s in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

Vagabond

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

What are You Doing with Your Life: Teen Books on Living Volume 1

I know you don’t like to believe you ever need to be taken care of, but I can’t stand the idea of you being sick and alone. I need to be here for you, babe.

Whisper Falls

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement...

War and Peace

Robert, what are you doing? I'm cooking.’ ‘I like to thank the chef for the excellent food.’ ‘But surely that is done at the end of the meal.’ ‘What a good idea, I'll thank you later … as it should be done.

Worthless

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

Wyrd Sisters

The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist.

What's Wrong with the World