“When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!” MenFirstsLooksLittlesHas BeensStillsEyeYoungCoursesStarsSpaceClearRecordsGenerationsTearsRemainsShiningSilentPitySereneShepherdsNoisySiriusOrion Author:Thomas Carlyle
“Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.” ArtCultureNextRecordsGenerationsArt IsRememberedNext Generation Author:Marsha Norman
“The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.” InspirationalStrongGrowthLinesAbilityResultsRecordsGenerationsThirdsQuartersCashDiverseMarginsGlobal Business Author:Jack Welch
“There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.” PeopleNeedsFeelsArtistEvilCompanySupportRecordsGenerationsGrewGrew UpMusic IsBuyingRecord CompaniesYounger Generation Author:Bob Mould
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.” ThinkingMenNeedsArtTodayPastEasyAnswersHistoryGoneRecordsWrittenGenerationsDangerScaryDrivenBlockIdiotReasoningDelusionExceptionalContinuityRiddleQuicksandLifelinesGood Thinking Book:Occasions and protests Source: Occasions and protests
“I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.” WantFirstsGuyGoalRecordsGenerationsPromiseMy Generation Author:John Mayer
“I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain Come on Over CD. But if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.” IfsThinkingRecordsGenerationsMovedStores80sCdsRecord Stores Author:Julianne Hough
“Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.” PeopleWantMindChildrenCountryPastSleepRecordsFourGenerationsPreservesTiesSoilTexasGrandsonFour Generations Book:Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King Source: Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King
“I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called "The Mummy", and the flip-side was called "The Beat Generation" which Richard Hell later re-wrote as "The Blank Generation". I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!” FirstsRealPlayKidsYoungUsedSongSidesHellRecordsGenerationsHeardBeatsMonstersFlyingSpotsBlankFlipMummyFlying SaucersBeat Generation Author:Tom Verlaine
“The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.” TwoBigsThreeRecordsGenerationsEventsIndustryNuclearMilesIslandsVisibleEquipmentChernobylBig EventsMishapsFukushimaThree Mile Island Author:Bill Gates
“I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.” KnowsInterestRaceRecordsGenerationsFansNew YorkFameProjectsMusicianJazzWho I AmHipsRatsParticipatingRat Race Author:Paul Smoker
“The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.” PeopleBookEyeRecordsGenerationsCamerasHorribleMuseumsThickHungFuture GenerationFilthyEyes That SeeHorrible Life Author:David Shrigley
“When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.” YearsLooksShowsEarthPastRecordsGenerationsDataOfficialsGlobal WarmingShockScarePanicJustifiedFuture GenerationTemperature Author:Christopher Booker