Best Britpop Quotes

#1. I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Billy Collins

#2. One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

Jarvis Cocker

#4. If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg

#5. Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

Emm Gryner

#6. I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don't want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend.

David Sedaris

#7. If you find things complicated, it means you haven't understood them. Simplicity is the basis of everything.

Carlos Ghosn

#8. I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

John Niven

#9. A CACTUS DOESN'T LIVE in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

Hope Jahren

#10. There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

Nikolai Gogol

#11. If I didn't smell so good would you still hug me?

Curtis Jackson

#12. I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

Gary Kemp

#13. There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Jeff VanderMeer

#14. Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

Don Meyer

#15. The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.

Ryuho Okawa