I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

I’ve got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.