It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations. — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
Miley [Cyrus] is so sweet. In this generation - and I know because I have two teenage boys - they don't really… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We are here to witness the creation and abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash… — Reginald Hudlin Copy Share Image
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist… — Nikka Graff Lanzarone Copy Share Image
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Iraq today does have a chance to shape its own future. They may not do that, or this generation may not do… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time &… — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
Kiwis must not fall behind the standards of other countries. We pride ourselves on our quality of life. Thus we must pave… — Kylie Bax Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What we do now in America, will speak louder for our generations, than our generations has ever spoke for themselves. — Merle Rutledge Jr Copy Share Image
Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image