„I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.“

— Jane Austen

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„Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.“
— Sylvia Plath
„Why do I always get my best ideas in the shower? “
— Albert Einstein
„I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.“
— Orson Welles
„I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.”“Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.“
— Patricia Briggs
„My literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in belief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety.“
— H.L. Mencken
„I am gratified by her having pleasure in what I write, but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed to her discerning criticism may not hurt my style, by inducing too great a solicitude. I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the store-closet it would be charming.“
— Jane Austen