Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it’s somebody else’s idea. – Jean Hanff Korelitz
The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn’t get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven’t set out with any list of achievements. – Kenneth Branagh
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental. – Lyle Lovett
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. – Katherine Dunn
I like the idea that I’m making things that people might think and argue about. – Kristin Scott Thomas
I don’t buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. – John Boyne
It’s sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something. – Jhonen Vasquez
Maybe it’s due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn’t strike me as being too far out there. – Joshua Jackson
I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there. – Lykke Li
My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside. – Katy Perry
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn’t a guaranteed pension. – Michael Moore
There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people. – Maren Morris
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that’s the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids. – Robbie Kay
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations. – Randall Kennedy
Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic. – Robert Woodrow Wilson
The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, ‘cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone. – Ronald Biggs
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes. – Seth Godin
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. – Robert Anton Wilson