There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal that will make this world a better place for future generations.
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient.
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.
Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.
Those generic avatar images for uploading a personal photo are really convenient for me, because my face looks exactly like that.
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.
I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
