#genera

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ↗

— Renata Adler

#erases #experience #generation #history #own

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#contemporary #gap #generation #generation gap #ignored

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#bomb #could #even #fail #general

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#each #general #gone #good #good thing

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#dared #first #first of all #general #i

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#films #fought #generation #global #his

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#convince #damage #done #far #far less

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#brutality #bureaucratic #city #coherent #come

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. ↗

— Moss Hart

#audience #clock #far #generally #hearing