A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.