“So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.” WayWritingIdeasTogetherAmericaPurposeTurnsChoicesNextOpportunityDestinyProgressWrittenHabitBattleTestsCrisisOur TimeGood IdeasChaptersOur DestinyIdeologicalBad HabitsPartisanship Author:Barack Obama
“I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.” ThinkingIdeasWould BeBitsTiesCheerGood IdeasPeterVansInhumanBarbaric Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.” KnowsWritingDoeIdeasDoneSpeakLosesLosingGratefulGood IdeasNegotiation Author:John Ashbery
“[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.” IdeasCasesBecomingTerribleTaxesClassicGood IdeasPolls Author:Norman Tebbit
“There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.” MenLittlesSaidIdeasPlayGuyFeltPresidentSawsEffectsScriptsScreensNo IdeaAttractiveGood IdeasPilotsThis GuyThirteenGemsCockyHarperBeing Cocky Author:John Gallagher, Jr.
“That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.” YearsHumansStillsIdeasLightFightingStarsModernPlanetsDistanceScalesGood IdeasWarfareProvokingDivorcedUnthinkableModern WarfareLight Years Author:Iain Banks
“Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident. There are competing explanations, we have a pretty good idea, but we're not sure. And then things are speculative.” KnowsWellsIdeasThreeTalkingExplanationNot SureGood IdeasCompeting Author:Stephen Schneider
“A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.” DoeIdeasProblemSolveJust OneGood IdeasMultiple Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.” PeopleIfsMeanIdeasOrderMiracleGenuineDestroyingGood Ideas Author:Jose Saramago
“I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.” KnowsWritingYearsBookIdeasPlansStrikesExceptionContractsGood IdeasBlankSequenceAmber Author:Roger Zelazny
“I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.” ThinkingWantLongIdeasStarsPersonalityLong TimeDecidedWaveGood IdeasFlagsLiving My LifeLong Time Ago Author:Paul Scofield