#idea

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#ideas #laugh #made #myself #never

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#been #books #chased #ghost #i

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#beautiful #beauty #call #field #film

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #feels #i #i am #ideally

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#highest #ideas #moral #music #namely

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#appealed #draws #exciting #going #happen

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#classed #continent #convey #every #face

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway. ↗

— Anna Sui

#big responsibility #draw #i #ideas #licenses