Pastoral Resources

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.