#gen

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ↗

— Simon Raven

#class #common #common man #early #faring

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. ↗

— Herbert Read

#balance #efficiency #forms #general #greatest

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#being #completely #deprived #forces #generation

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public. ↗

— B. Carroll Reece

#filter #general #general public #generated #ideas

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#beauty

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible. ↗

— Harry Reid

#country #dangerous #defeat #effort #help

Oh Satan you're a wily one. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#intelligence #satan #intelligence

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. ↗

— Bob Richards

#equals #ingenuity #miracles #plus #work

Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh. ↗

— Denise Richards

#called #collagen #fish #full #getting

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long. ↗

— Scott Rigell

#congressional #could #decline #declined #every