Idea Quotes

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.

You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I’d known what was coming, I would’ve called in sick. I could’ve avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

And evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.

So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.