Generace X Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. — Mary Augusta Ward

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. — Henry David Thoreau

The title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since. — Catherine The Great

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! — Christian Scott

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album. — Tom Jones

It is a wife's duty and pleasure to lessen her husband's burdens." "Says who, lizardman?" "Prophet Lashraq, as written in Sheul's true Word." "You mean a man wrote it." "But — R. Lee Smith

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness. — Nick Hornby

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. — Charles Barkley

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring — Claude C. Hopkins

For a suburban man aged 30 to 40, hell is going clothing shopping on a Saturday afternoon. There are about 5,000 other things they would put on the list ahead of clothes shopping. — Richard Hayne

When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment. — Samuel Beckett

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. — Tony Robbins

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players. — Garry Kasparov