In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.
I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
Bouncing ideas off people when you're thinking up comedy is great.
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.
You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
