Lucius: You can't trust the older generation.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.
Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
It is easy to get a thousand soldiers, but difficult to get one general.
One generation builds the street on which the next will walk.
There is nothing like deprivation to generate thanks for small mercies.
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we hav...
Major John Reisman: Which one of you guys wants to be a general? [to Pinkley] Major John Reisman: Pinkley? Pinkley: What kind of general, sir? Major John Reisman: Just a plain, ordinary, every day, home-lovin' American general. Pinkley: I'd rather be...
Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.
I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.
Yes, it's important to inspire the next generation but let's not forget to inspire the now generation too.
'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
