#idea

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else. ↗

— David Geffen

#idea #something #think #way #you

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#around #back #businesses #companies #core

Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#celebrity #different #either #everyone #hard

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#am #arduous #circumstances #i #i am

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#idea #modern #no idea #once #someday

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#also #asking #because #else #going

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#happened #i #ideas #just #music

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it. ↗

— Martin Gore

#decide #enjoy #focal #focal point #half

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them. ↗

— Charles Gounod

#catch #flight #had #hand #i

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#adventure #america #civilization #desertion #emigration