All Quotes

My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
‐‐ Robin Gibb

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.
‐‐ Rupert Everett

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!
‐‐ Emily VanCamp

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
‐‐ Alan Rickman

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
‐‐ Corey Hart

My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like.
‐‐ Mark Frauenfelder

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
‐‐ Vidya Balan

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

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?
‐‐ Bruce Sterling

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
‐‐ Robert Andrews Millikan

My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.
‐‐ Mary Karr

My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.
‐‐ Cilla Black

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'
‐‐ Glenn Danzig

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
‐‐ Robert M. Hutchins

My idea of fast food is a mallard.
‐‐ Ted Nugent

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau

My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous.
‐‐ Paula Hawkins

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
‐‐ James MacArthur

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
‐‐ Jane Austen

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's!
‐‐ Jane Goldman

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
‐‐ Oprah Winfrey

My idea of heaven is a pennant winner.
‐‐ Tom Yawkey

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

My idea of heaven is not writing.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
‐‐ Lea Michele

My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

My idea of home is not necessarily a place.
‐‐ Michael Kiwanuka

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
‐‐ Sparky Anderson

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
‐‐ David Mamet

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
‐‐ David Fincher

My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.
‐‐ Emma Watson

My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
‐‐ Bette Midler

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
‐‐ Susie Bright

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
‐‐ Shaun Cassidy

My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.
‐‐ Dana Davis

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
‐‐ James Salter

My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the mutations that cause problems.
‐‐ Bruce Beutler