Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor Manuel

This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.

Walter Benjamin

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

Samuel Beckett

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

Vasily Grossman

In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

Vince Flynn

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

Orlando Jones

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

Niall Ferguson

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

Pranab Mukherjee

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Prince

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

Richard P. Feynman

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

Russell Hoban

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

Trip Hawkins

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

William S. Burroughs

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

William J. Clinton

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

Valerie Solanas

Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?

Ronald Reagan

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.

Zach Braff

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

Wilfrid Sheed

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Sarah Waters

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

Wole Soyinka

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Milan Kundera

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Marcel Proust

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Jose Saramago

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Khaled Hosseini

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Nelson DeMille

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Philip Levine

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.