#lis

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#difference #great #great ideas #had #huge

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#big #cannot #expensive #had #happened

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#city #done #edge #fields #five

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#fast #him #hubert #humphrey #like

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. ↗

— Danny Strong

#elections #idealism #loses #pragmatism #winning

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#novelists #past #present #story #tell

I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#always #because #cities #cousin #early

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#hard #i #like #necessarily #poetic

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#conference #disappearing #forest #gift #had

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#jobs #journalists #protect #their