You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.
I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.
I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.
I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.
Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it.
The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.
The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"
I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast. . . Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea. . . Don't be polite and go through the whole process.
I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
Sometimes I have no idea whats going on
I would just be vibing with whatever I liked the most. And then there were a couple songs that I started on my own. I would have a melody or an idea and I would take it to the studio to go through it.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.