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Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. -- Scott Bakula
Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. -- Mark Twain
I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right. -- Shilpa Shetty
Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic. -- Ryan Holmes
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. -- Wentworth Miller
I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love. -- Willem Dafoe
Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong. -- Dana Spiotta
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. -- Marshall McLuhan
Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives. -- Diablo Cody
Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular. -- Richard Dawkins
Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that's impossible. -- Robert Bresson
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art. -- Don Spencer
Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable. -- Edward Gorey
Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say. -- T. J. Jagodowski
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. -- Frank Auerbach
Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine. -- Michael Bywater
Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself. -- Jeffery Deaver
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. -- David Foster Wallace
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. -- John Baldessari
Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome. -- John Rawls
Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter. -- Clinton Morrison
Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless. -- Keith Jarrett
Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Ideally you want to be a couple of months ahead on a project. But I rarely am. -- Frank Quitely
Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that. -- Henry Cavill
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading -- C. S. Lewis
Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers! -- Michael Flatley
Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present. -- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
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Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none. -- Gore Vidal
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print. -- Erin McKean
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles. -- Joseph Pilates
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. -- Gore Vidal
Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company. -- Jack Welch
Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours -- Richard Branson
Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience. -- Franklyn Ajaye
Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors. -- Rick Steves
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other. -- Trey Anastasio
I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant. -- James Mercer
At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we perceive the world. -- David Morrell
Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy. -- W. H. Auden
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing. -- W. H. Auden
Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again. -- Heather Donahue
Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour. -- Stanley Schmidt
Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right? -- Rachel Stevens
You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. -- Timothy Noah
Ideally, I would like to be in a position where I represent 100 guys in the NFL, to be in a position where I could control whether some teams win or lose. -- Drew Rosenhaus
I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life. -- Jim Coleman
I'm good with getting older, because I feel like one day, I know I will love myself. I can't imagine staying at one age. Ideally, I'd want to be 20 physically but 40 mentally. -- Amanda Seyfried
Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic. -- Johan Cruijff
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. -- John Rawls
My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation. Ideally not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work. -- Kofi Annan
Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,' they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming. -- Marc Edwards
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life. -- Douglas Portway
There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can. -- John Mulaney
Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth. -- Alex Ebert
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it. -- Jonathan Demme
With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known. -- David Douglas Duncan
It's important to know the jam-packed power of certain foods that will not only protect you from a myriad of health issues, but also will help you with hormone balance. Ideally, your food choices should be organic and pesticide free. -- Suzanne Somers
Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person. -- Mark Hoppus
Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to. -- Chantal Kreviazuk
Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story. -- Henry Jenkins
Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner. -- John Battelle
Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner. -- Gerry Lindgren
Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different. -- Margaret Thatcher
Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind. -- Jimmy Wales
I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century. -- Nicholas Sparks
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day - every morning or every night, whatever time it is that you have. Ideally, the time you decide on is also the time when you do your best work. -- Walter Mosley
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it. -- Stephanie Mills
I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love. -- Shuler Hensley
Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although the industry is slowly getting used to fitting narrative professionals into games development, we're still going through a bit of a 'square-peg in a round hole' phase. -- Rhianna Pratchett
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down. -- Peter Straub
Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser. -- Stephen Colbert
I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally. -- Amanda Seyfried
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. -- Henry Adams
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. -- Orison Swett Marden
The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple. -- Vivek Wadhwa
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
It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead. -- Jools Holland
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room. -- Jack White
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. -- Roger Nash Baldwin
For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean. -- Brian Skerry
Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments I'm wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry. -- Hilary Rhoda
We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem. -- Stacy London
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. -- Edmund Husserl
If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards. -- Suze Orman
When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people. -- Brian Chesky
I do like working out. I feel my best when I work out, but you know, I'm human. I like to ride my bicycle and lift weights and hike. When I am diligently working out, ideally, I like to work out four days a week. If I can do that, I feel good about myself. -- Shemar Moore
The working process is ideally freeing my mind. -- Robert Rauschenberg
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible. -- Judy Woodruff
You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years. -- Sam Altman
Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history. -- Alix Kates Shulman
If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think. -- Steven Pinker
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned... -- Rebecca Solnit
Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. -- Roger Schank
Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are. -- Brian Tracy
Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life. -- Howie Long
None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. -- Swami Vivekananda
In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there. -- Ben Elliot
Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful. -- Chris Robinson
The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people. -- Billy Graham
...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position. -- Jack Welch
Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful. -- Paula Radcliffe
Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself. -- Keith Rabois
In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected. -- Anne Bishop
America looks to have a great relationship with all countries, ideally. That won't necessarily happen, unfortunately probably won't happen with many countries. -- Donald Trump
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible. -- Penelope Gilliatt
When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works. -- Cassandra Clare
I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves. -- Don Hertzfeldt
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. -- Brock Yates
There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane." -- Dave Barry
If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at. -- Ivanka Trump
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance. -- Yehudi Menuhin
Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them. -- Win Butler
I ideally would like to do three films every year. Every day, I pray for it. But I should like a script before I sign on a film. -- Shahid Kapoor

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