S Ideas Quotes

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

The world is a very big place and there are many wonderful people in with ideas you haven't thought about. Talk to them, find out what they're thinking, so that you can be the best person you can be.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes you.

I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.

Dogs are joiners; if they were guys, their idea of a good time would be to attend an Elks luncheon.

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied.

Globalization is the next big artworld idea

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic.

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

Seeing my ideas come to reality. Seeing how happy it makes other people to wear them. Seeing them on other people makes me the happiest.

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.