My Ideal Quotes

#1. My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

Boris Johnson

#2. I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

Baba Amte

#3. That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

Fede Alvarez

#4. I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#5. The principles of my works ... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity ... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.

Arnulf Rainer

#6. I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

Elizabeth Knox

#7. I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.

Elaine Dundy

#8. My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.

Philipp Meyer

#9. Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.

Lissie

#10. My ideal prom date would have to be cute, funny, sweet, nice.

Kendall Jenner

#11. I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

Gary Shteyngart

#12. My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

Robert Pattinson

#13. I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Ahmad Jamal

#14. As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone

Rita Stradling

#15. My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

Sean Kingston

#16. I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

Sheridan Smith

#17. My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

Steve Nash

#18. My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Natalie Goldberg

#19. If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

Louis Lecoin

#20. First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

Paul Klee

#21. My mom has been my support system from day one. Admiring the type of person she is gives me a sense of what to look for in my ideal cheerleader when the time comes.

OMI

#22. My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

Alexander Ludwig

#23. My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

Nicki Minaj

#24. If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

Park Chan-wook

#25. I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

Allison Anders

#26. I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

Wendy Kopp

#27. I don't like crowds because I am small and fear being trampled. My ideal night out is a dinner party in my backyard with a group of like-minded friends whom I boss around in a gentle and loving way.

Amy Poehler

#28. In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

Hamish Linklater

#29. I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.

Lissie

#30. My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

William Faulkner

#31. My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.

Sam Pink

#32. I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

Florence Welch

#33. My ideal meal would probably be the cheesiest pasta or pizza, followed by something creamy and chocolaty. I mean, just the worst things, really.

Ricky Gervais

#34. If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

Wilkie Collins

#35. In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

Clay Aiken

#36. What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

Laura Linney

#37. I've always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it.

Harry Mathews

#38. I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

Gerhard Richter

#39. She satisfies my ideal." Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be "love at first sight" is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a dream.

Fulton J. Sheen

#40. That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Kenny G

#41. My favorite thing is to be naked, which is why I always live in remote areas. My ideal is to wake in the morning and run around the meadows naked. I think it's a good idea to live in harmony with nature.

Daryl Hannah

#42. I'm still not at my ideal weight. I didn't lose forty-five pounds before the wedding. Who knows if I ever will. I've lost twenty-seven and a half pounds, and that's better than nothing. Somehow, though, today I'm thinking more about what I've gained than what I've lost.

K.A. Barson

#43. Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Nikola Tesla

#44. My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the
planner and the dreamer.

Lucille Ball

#45. Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

Alain Prost

#46. Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

Alexander McQueen

#47. In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.

Christina Baker Kline

#48. My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.

Grover Norquist

#49. My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

James Arthur

#50. Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

Diablo Cody

#51. My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a gay guy? A warm smile, stubble, easy to talk to, thoughtful tattoos, kind eyes, wit, positivity, wanderlust, ambition, and a cute ass.

Tyler Oakley

#52. I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Alice Walker

#53. My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind of a window into people's lives where we could be compassionate and curious and empathetic and we could tell each other secrets.

Jon Ronson

#54. The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.

Lawrence Weiner

#55. I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

Martina Navratilova

#56. Oh, when I think that I made of a man like you my ideal! the ideal of my life!
There was your mistake. There was your error. The error all women commit. Why can't you women love us, faults and all?

Oscar Wilde

#57. My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#58. To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

Piet Mondrian

#59. My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

Pamela Anderson

#60. My ideal weight is 205, actually.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#61. My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

Swami Vivekananda

#62. My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin - the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man ... Where are the life-size - or even pint-size - Benjamin Franklins of today?

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#63. My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.

Carlos Tevez

#64. Difference between me and people like Murray Rothbard is that, though I want to know what my ideal is, I think I also have to be willing to discuss changes that are less than ideal so long as they point me in that direction.

Milton Friedman

#65. It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.

Ernst Junger

#66. I just want to tailgate, drink beer, and hang out in the middle of nowhere in a pick-up truck. That's my ideal date.

Ronda Rousey

#67. I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

Jeff Mangum

#68. The thinking that says, 'I will start building my ideal future tomorrow, or next week, or next month,' is fatally flawed. The future you are going to live is the one you are creating right now at this very moment.

Brian P. Moran

#69. Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby ... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.

Craig Parker

#70. My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

Niels Diffrient

#71. Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#72. I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

Shawn Ashmore

#73. Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

Bucky Sinister

#74. At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it.

Sean Bean

#75. There is a possessiveness in the idealist's attitude . . . . "You are to be like me. I will shape you, or hammer you, into the shape of my ideal. You must enjoy my pleasures. Your tastes must coincide with mind. You must have only my values. You must be restricted by my limitations

Caryll Houselander

#76. Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That's my ideal fight.

Tyson Fury

#77. Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

Emily Carr

#78. The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter - that has always been my ideal.

Thomas Bernhard

#79. Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

Garth Greenwell

#80. My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

Andy Warhol

#81. As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.

Yesung

#82. When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.

Jonathan Stroud

#83. [My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

Lissie

#84. My ideal state as a reader when I'm reading other people is feeling I'm vaguely wasting my time when I'm not reading that novel.

Ian McEwan

#85. My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.'

Sebastian Faulks

#86. My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.

Philip Kitcher

#87. A style similar to Song Hye Gyo's is my ideal type.

Lee Byung-hun

#88. Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

Brook Tesla

#89. My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

Sarah Vowell

#90. My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Stephen Hawking

#91. My ideal travel companions are my family.

Pharrell Williams

#92. My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

Trevor Noah

#93. Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

Brooke Burke

#94. It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

Diana Wynne Jones

#95. Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

Daniel Craig

#96. My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.

Candice Swanepoel

#97. My ideal type of women? A person who is completely into me. It's fine even if she's so into me that it's a bit strange. She doesn't spend time with friends, she doesn't go out, but instead is unconditionally attached to me. I'm not joking. I really want someone like that.

Lee Joon

#98. In my ideal world, it would be a soulful connection to the role because you've shared a lot of the same experiences as the character and you just feel so right in it. That's the first thing I look for.

Giles Matthey

#99. I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.

Mark Indelicato

#100. My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don't vote.

Sharon Salzberg