It’s the South that maintains the idea that they’re different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares. – Josh Lucas
I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that. – Jimmy Chin
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish. – Graham Taylor
I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It’s something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East. – John Gregory Dunne
Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner. – Jeff Miller
As an idea occurs to me, I’ll either follow it or not, but I’m more instinctive than master-planner about stuff. – John Darnielle
Beethoven’s fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they’re both written by Beethoven, but besides that, I would say their overall effect and idea is to provide the listener with an incredible sense of joy. – Joshua Bell
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln
If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance. – Brandon Stanton
I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this. – Bernard Ebbers
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system. – Abraham Robinson
I’d even say it’s a realistic film because that’s the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea. – Alain Resnais
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. – Carroll Quigley
I’ve always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn’t have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did. – B. B. King
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance. – James Surowiecki