Dorothy Parker Quotes

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.

I'm a 'tweener,' man! I couldn't march with Dr. King and them. And I'm too old to be a hip-hopper. But I've been granted honorary status in each generation... I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

I'm not of this generation.

Each generation needs a 'Spider-Man' to mirror their angst.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.

I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'

From my perspective, I'm trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.

We didn't feel we fitted into the '80s.

Oasis were massive for me, because of the attitude and what they represented and how outspoken they were. It felt like they were exactly like me.

Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

My story has been the story of my generation.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]