I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. – Alice Walker
With ‘Urban Secrets,’ I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people. – Alan Cumming
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated. – A. R. Rahman
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I’ve won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well. – Jack Nicklaus
I don’t like shows that are predictable. I like it when you’re shocked and you have no idea who’s about to die. – Aaron Douglas
I’m a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears. – J. Michael Straczynski
I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don’t think they think of them very often. – Bill Clegg
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. – Carl Sagan
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences. – Brian Eno
Perhaps I shouldn’t have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world. – Christian Lacroix
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. – Alec Baldwin
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. – Claude Bernard
I’m not really premeditative in any way at all. I come up with an idea, hopefully for a film, and then I’m lucky enough to do the film. – Christopher Guest
SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail. – Bill Gates
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman’s domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. – Alice Hoffman
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is. – Alex Ferguson
I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people. – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It’s an idea that turns us into victims. I’m saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them. – Bruce Lipton
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. – Anthony Kiedis
The idea there were kids out there who didn’t love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write. – Adora Svitak
It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on. – Al Yankovic
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12. – Bill Nye