Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Zinedine Zidane

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

Ellen Goodman

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Nelly Furtado

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Mindy Kaling

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

Karl Marx

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Marshall McLuhan

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

Emile M. Cioran

Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

Christine Whitman

It's a nightmare for any business. We need one standard nationally.

Juliet Marillier

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

Peter McCormick

This is the nightmare scenario for Harper. I don't know how much they can get done." ()

Byron Katie

There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.

Michael Posner

A filmmaker's worst nightmare is screening his film and there's no one in the theater to see it.

Rhonda Jefferson

It was the worst nightmare ever. Especially after winning the first two games.

Robert Hager

This is a worst nightmare come true for down-winders.

Jan Egeland

This is not enough. We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare ever. We thought the tsunami was the worst we could get. This is worse.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Alexander McQueen

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

Alexander McQueen

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.