idea

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

I like marriage. The idea.

The visual aspect of a dish is so important the shapes and colors and overall design have to strike the right mood and convey the right idea.

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.