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.

W. Somerset Maugham

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

Wyclef Jean

My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

Wyclef Jean

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

William Penn

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

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.

Kevin Whately

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Two Chainz

You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.

Wayne Dyer

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

William Glasser

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Wendell Berry

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

Linda McCartney

In the years since I first met Paul Ive had all sorts of labels stuck on me. Now the new label is businesswomen. Sure I have this business. But what I am, what I am myself, is a photographer.

Mickey Gilley

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

John C. Maxwell

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

John Brunner

I'm myself, not a label.

Nikki Haley

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

Jim Bunning

I think their records should all be wiped out.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Robert Quine

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

William Blake

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

Samuel Beckett

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.