The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what’s fascinating to me. – Chris Van Allsburg
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I’m a musician first. I’m not limited by the fretboard. – Brad Paisley
A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write. – Christopher Buckley
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. – Brian Eno
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. – Benjamin Spock
This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous. – Beth Ditto
I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine. – Cindy Crawford
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. – Constantin Brancusi
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race. – Ben Stein
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years. – Amartya Sen
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. – Benjamin Disraeli
I was sure ‘Summer Heights High’ would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit. – Chris Lilley
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me. – Brian Eno
We shouldn’t limit the idea of ‘policy recommendations’ to regulators. On the Internet, all of us are, in a sense, policymakers. – Cass Sunstein
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. – Cecil Rhodes
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. – Buddha
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists. – Brian De Palma
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. – Alfonso A. Ossorio
I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn’t okay to do. – Ariel Rechtshaid
There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot. – Anthony Marra