"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

Idea, Fantasy, Treatment

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"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Idea, Fanaticism

"I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks."

Sean Booth, English Musician

Idea, Building, Dress, Hate

"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."

Sean Booth, English Musician

Idea, Being, Engineering

"It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other."

Ann Wilson, American Musician

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"After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times."

Sandra Bullock, American Actress

Idea, Old

"I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school."

Don Johnson, American Actor

Idea, School

"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea."

Dave Rowntree, English Musician

Idea, Kids

"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

Idea, Indifference, Sensibility

"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

Lewis Thomas, English Scientist

Idea, Discontent, Dying, Earth

"I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!"

Fritz Zwicky, Swiss Scientist

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"Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief."

Hope

"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"

Art

"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."

Gardening

"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."

Happiness

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."

Wife

"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."

God

"There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy."

Girls

"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion."

Devotion

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."

People

"A man endures misfortune without complaint."

Complaint