A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.