Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it..

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea..

I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices..

I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's….

What I like to do is take something from a man's wardrobe and re-proportion it slightly. We've got another jacket in this collection with a smaller s….

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour..

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on televi….

Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that they want even….

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating….

But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home ….

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out..

That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase..

The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If ac….

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't..

It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me..

Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you're quiet and you're just not the most gregarious person, that you're like.. I don't know, self-invol….

Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. “ When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, ‘I’m the most elite war….

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way..

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...l….

It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a que….

Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try….