I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.
I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
