Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head..

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen..

I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war….

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off..

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible..

I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do ….

Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germ….

The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in ….

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better..

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mi….

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine..

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. H….

The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used o….

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had ….

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of wha….

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound..

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are perman….

All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance.….

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of….

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that ….

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or do….