Genxers Quotes & Sayings

If it's strictly comedy, I like to bring some darkness to it. If it's strictly drama, I always like to lighten it up as well. I like to find some kind of dimension and make my characters human, so that it doesn't feel like a sketch and feels more like a slice of life. — Nestor Carbonell

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it. — Adolf Hitler

Boston is the engine of the state's economy. — Thomas Menino

Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of? — Steven Wright

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future. — Michael Schumacher

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is. — David R. Brower

When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill. — Paolo Bacigalupi

GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships. — Mal Fletcher

GenXers are doing the quiet work of keeping America from sucking. — Jeff Gordinier

I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people. — Marianne Williamson

Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago. — Robert Green Ingersoll

To fill the hour - that is happiness, to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm. — Leo Strauss