Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

Edith Piaf

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Dennis Miller

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

Bill Moyers

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

Daron Malakian

When we first started the band here in LA, Janes Addiction was the band we looked up to. They came out at a time when there was a lot of glam rock and hair bands and they got put into that category, but they stood out because they were doing their own thing. We were kind of caught in the same kind of situation at another time: there were a lot of new-metal bands and wed get put into that category even though we didnt fit. Its funny that now theres bands like Mars Volta doing this prog-rock thing thats kinda getting popular, people put us in that genre now. That may be closer to the truth, but I think Hypnotized is going to go further in terms of getting people to understand what were doing.

Bill Ayers

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Chelsea Handler

Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.

Ayn Rand

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Bertrand Russell

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Edgar Lee Masters

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

Myles Munroe

Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Sam Smith

There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Dean Koontz

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Bill Gates

what are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.