Top 100 Liked The Idea Quotes
#2. I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.
Jane Asher
#3. I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
Tom Waits
#4. She liked the idea of a place belonging to the cows, no ownership of human ego.
Aporva Kala
#5. I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
Rufus Sewell
#6. It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.
Mary Harron
#7. He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
Julian Barnes
#8. I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn't do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.
Douglas Coupland
#9. I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.
Alex Gaskarth
#10. And there Allan could see an opening. In a prison camp you couldn't just hang around, because if you did then the guards would shoot you.
Herbert liked the idea, but it gave him the creeps at the same time. A load of bullets, wouldn't that be dreadfully painful?
Jonas Jonasson
#11. I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
Samantha Shannon
#12. I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.
Neil Gaiman
#13. I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#14. I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood and the hysterical parents and the guilt, any of it. But sometimes I liked the idea of simply not having to be here anymore, not having to deal with my life. As if death could be just an extended vacation.
Leila Sales
#15. I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.
Isabel Gillies
#16. She was decidedly uncomfortable with the switchblade. Although she very much liked the idea of it---Blue Sargent, desperado; Blue Sargent, superhero; Blue Sargent, badass---she suspected that the only thing she would cut the first time she opened it was herself.
Maggie Stiefvater
#17. If there was a God who cared, could He make her brave? She liked the idea of it all.
Rachel Hauck
#18. And, just like that, I had a minion. I liked the idea.
Robin Roseau
#19. I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
Larry Rivers
#20. I liked the idea of bouncy, open-air Jeeps and I liked the outfits with all the pockets, only I didn't really want to live in Africa and be shot by poachers/get malaria/get stabbed to death.
Deb Caletti
#21. Isabel smiled. She liked a conversation that went in odd directions; she liked the idea of playfulness in speech. People could be so depressingly literal. Jamie
Alexander McCall Smith
#22. I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on.
-Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine
Oliver Harris
#23. I'd never thought much about a series, because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with a character I thought I could sustain for an hour. In a series, you live with one character day in and day out - and you only hope it will be one that will not drive you crazy.
Elizabeth Montgomery
#24. At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
Knute Rockne
#25. I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.
Jennifer Gilmore
#26. He stayed with her for so long because he liked the idea of being in love. He has an empty well in his heart that needs to be filled by someone. Anyone. But that's not enough for me, and it won't be enough for him either once he finally realizes the truth.
Stephanie Perkins
#27. I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#28. I always liked the idea that Thor was the god who'd wake up every day and look at that hammer and not know whether he was going to pick it up. Only the worthy can lift the hammer of Thor, and I love the idea of a god who was always questioning his own worthiness.
Jason Aaron
#29. I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.
Guy Ritchie
#30. At one point, she probably liked the idea of a daughter. When she was a girl, I bet she daydreamed of being a mother, of coddling, of licking her child like a milk-swelled cat. She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public, was a beloved child.
Gillian Flynn
#31. It wasn't going places. It was being between ... Mostly it was space. So much space. I liked the idea of nothing on top, nothing on the bottom, and a lot of nothing in between, and me in the middle of the nothing.
Ray Bradbury
#32. I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
Nicolas Roeg
#33. Ben was a man living his dream. As if anyone could compete with that. Maybe he'd liked the idea of me. Reality was, however, there'd never been room for me in his life.
Kylie Scott
#34. Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood.
Kevin Systrom
#35. She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.
John Steinbeck
#36. In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact' ... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.
Lorene Scafaria
#37. I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
Jimmy Wales
#38. I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
Siouxsie Sioux
#39. I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
Raul Castro
#40. I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
John Green
#41. With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
Alan Cumming
#42. Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.
Walter Schloss
#43. I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.
Mario Testino
#44. He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support.
Trudi Canavan
#45. When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
Mark Mothersbaugh
#46. For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.
Dick Pound
#47. I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.
Eric Kandel
#48. As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.
Madeleine Roux
#49. Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamored with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.
China Mieville
#50. I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
D. A. Pennebaker
#51. I liked the idea of working outside, using my body and my mind together. I haven't been disappointed! Land surveying can be very physical work, but there is a strong intellectual and technological component as well.
Mark Mason
#52. I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.
Andy Partridge
#53. Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.
Lucas Neff
#54. To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
Ben Affleck
#55. I was concussed! My brain was scrambled. Whatever I said, it didn't count.
I'm sorry to hear that. I kind of liked the idea of being gorgeous.
I'm sure you already know that.
It's still nice to know that you think
so.
Kelly Oram
#56. I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.
Anna Paquin
#57. I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.
Mike Colter
#58. I guess I liked the idea that ... well, that there might be some kind of larger meaning to life or whatever. My mother was into that. She had a nonreligious spiritual side to her, if that makes any sense. She believed in the idea of fate and destiny. An interconnectedness and purpose in life.
Jessica Park
#59. I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
Ben Stein
#60. I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.
Dylan Lauren
#61. I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.
Michael Rasmussen
#62. I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
Ted Ligety
#63. He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot - a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
John Green
#64. I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.
Courtney Barnett
#65. I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?
Erin Morgenstern
#66. I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.
Ruth Wilson
#67. I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
Philip K. Dick
#68. My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
Matt Prokop
#71. We both liked the idea but couldn't figure out a way to get up to the roof. Vince had just seen the Spider-Man movie and suggested we shoot webs out of our wrists and swing up there. We asked Vince not to contribute any more ideas.
Chris Jericho
#72. I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either.
Meg Donohue
#73. I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.
Tom Petty
#74. Students generally liked the idea of grouping majors into areas of interest to help organize their thinking about potential paths.
Thomas R. Bailey
#75. I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
Edward Norton
#76. Jesper always felt better when people were shooting at him. It wasn't that he liked the idea of dying (in fact, that potential outcome was a definite drawback), but if he was worrying about staying alive, he couldn't be thinking about anything else.
Leigh Bardugo
#77. Once I figured out what I was going to do with my life, I was definitely going to get a dog. Maybe I'd get a rescue. I liked the idea of an older dog that was already broken in and just needed a loving home. The irony was, that wasn't too different from how I was feeling about myself.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#78. Actually, I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, 'Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?' But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.
Nicola Formichetti
#79. I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.
Robert Barry
#80. I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
Jeremy Northam
#81. From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.
John Carpenter
#82. I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it.
Sara Cox
#83. I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting ... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.
David Duchovny
#84. Chase said, "It was a crazy idea." An impossible idea.
"Nothing is impossible, Chase, only improbable. And when you can see into the future and manipulate people into the right places, you can accomplish amazing things."
"I think I liked the idea better when it was in my head.
Adrienne Wilder
#85. I don't love him, period. I didn't love him before this. I cared about him. And I wanted to love him. Maybe I could have grown to love him. But those feelings just weren't there. I liked the idea of him. It was exciting. He was exciting. Too exciting.
Emily Giffin
#86. I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting
a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.
Jim Gaffigan
#87. I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
Alan Davies
#88. It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.
Elizabeth Hand
#89. I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
Rick Riordan
#90. I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.
Marc Almond
#91. I liked the idea - that we left pieces of ourselves everywhere we went, coloring all our important places.
Kirsten Hubbard
#92. I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.
Simon Cowell
#93. I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That's how Facebook started, after all.
John Battelle
#94. I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero
#95. I remember an immense feeling of possibility at the idea, as if I had been ushered into a vast building filled with closed doors and had been given leave to open any I liked. There were more doors than one person could ever open in a lifetime, I thought (and still think).
Stephen King
#96. He was intensely ritualistic, startlingly dramatic, loved the idea of God enough to be a celibate, and rather liked his neighbour.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. Then the two of us stood staring at one another. I had no idea what the fuck just happened, and only a part of me liked it. The other half loved it.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#98. When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
Linda Sue Park
#99. In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
Uwe Boll
#100. When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
Willem Dafoe
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