Kerouacs Generation Quotes

#1. The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war ... by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.

Norman Angell

#2. Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it - against reason - as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience ...

Erwin Schrodinger

#3. We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

Harry Markowitz

#4. The roughness on the under side of the wing comes from tiny scales, which are not present on the upper surface. These cover tiny holes that perforate the wing, and are hinged to form tiny scales, which are not present on the upper surface.

Marie Brennan

#5. On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.

Hector Elizondo

#6. He mighta spent a couple years under the arena training young wrestlers ...

Roddy Piper

#7. The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.

Jeff Noon

#8. Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

B.J. Penn

#9. I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Dan Simmons

#11. Take warning then by them: choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice. Were

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#12. I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

Shakira

#13. Everyone should be happy... everyone deserves it... When you are happy... it's time your dog to leave you... it's a time when your dogs dies and enters somebody's else life.

Deyth Banger

#14. The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

Steven Pinker

#15. At the world's end, a hero did not rise. So the people set out to make one.

Ali Billedeaux