#idea

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

#articulate #come #enough #go #go for it

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#clever #enough #good #i #idea

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#been #down #i #ideas #movies

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#contradiction #discovered #during #effect #exposed

However, I don’t understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea? ↗

— Garth Stein

#creation #evolution #human-being #idea #life

America is not a place. America is an idea that died along with my grandfather. And I’m sorry to say that I shot them both. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#died #funny #idea #funny

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized. ↗

— Mel Chin

#ideas #art

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#good #good idea #i #idea #millions

8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life. ↗

— John Fowles

#life #art

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#betting #federal #grotesque #idea #parlor