My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne. Use this quote
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. Use this quote
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. Use this quote
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. Use this quote
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? Use this quote
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie. Use this quote
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. Use this quote
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. Use this quote
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. Use this quote
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. Use this quote
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. Use this quote
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich. Use this quote