I’ve no idea what they make of me. People usually don’t recognise themselves in an impression. – Rory Bremner
There’s a certain clubbiness to the idea that you’re an ex-president. You’re no longer a politician. You’re a statesman. – Robert Dallek
I have an idea for a movie called ‘The Walken Dead’ which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken. – Robin Williams
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels – the essence of the Greens’ theory of global warming – has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism. – Paul Johnson
The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we’re going to use it. – Peter T. King
It’s a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. – Peter Mandelson
The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously. – Russ Feingold
Clothes are interesting and they’re there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion. – Orla Brady
I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things – almost like a Shakespearean fool. – Riz Ahmed
The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I’m not totally against it. It’s just we won’t put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense. – Patrick Carney
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began. – Ronald Frame
Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea… Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that’s interesting. – Richard Rhodes
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous – though, of course, they would not have used that phrase. – Richard Dawkins
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. – Robert Fortune
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed. – Palaniappan Chidambaram
Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who’s going to write them, and then they’re doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up. – Ruth Reichl
When I was filming ‘The Outsiders,’ my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie. – Rob Lowe
Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he’s pretty old. He’s thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is. – Ron Fairly
Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are. – Rob Sheffield
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it’s an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with. – Salman Rushdie