Quotes of: Generation-x Keyword

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Tom Noonan

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Zadie Smith

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

Alan Kay

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Charles Bukowski

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

Dweezil Zappa

I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.'

Josh Peck

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

Janet Street-Porter

It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation.

Enrique Pena Nieto

We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.

Erin O'Connor

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

Ellis Peters

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his [sic!] time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varese

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

Ethan Zuckerman

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.

Charles Duhigg

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

Chad Hurley

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

Cobi Jones

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.

C.S. Lewis

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'

Carrie Preston

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Charles Sanders Peirce

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

Henry Rollins

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

Ira Glass