Alan Menken Quotes

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

Alan Menken

Quotes to Explore

The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

Randy Wayne White
- Idea
- Fact
- Florida
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Malorie Blackman
- Children
- Love
- Reading
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

Tamara Ecclestone
- Work
- Idea
- Living
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

Camille Pissarro
- Idea
- Unity
- Rendering
The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

Tao Lin
- People
- Goal
- Advice
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Karl Kraus
- You
- Action
- Idea