“Seth: So what's the GP, RA? Ryan: I have no idea what you just said. Seth: Game plan, Ryan Atwood. Ryan: You're just using initials now? Seth: Yeah. They save time. Ryan: Well, not if you have to translate. Seth: GP. Ryan: Game Plan? Seth: Good Point.”— Allan Heinberg, Seth Cohen, Adam Brody, imdb.com
“Millennials are coming of age in a post-Steve Jobs world. We’ve watched Mark Zuckerberg ascend to one of the most powerful positions on the planet and we are being spoon-fed the myth of the visionary founder through prestige movies based on their lives. Coupled with “self made success stories” like…”— Philip Ellis, manrepeller.com
“I believe that when millennials eventually secede and form our own nation, the flag will be an image of avocado toast on a light pink background.”— Cady Drell, marieclaire.com
“I see change and paper money primarily as vehicles for doing laundry and getting a new bacterial infection.”— Alana Hope Levinson, melmagazine.com
“America only cares about what the superstars are up to. The rest of us, from the benches to the bleachers, are left to our own devices. And we can play whatever games we want.”— Stephanie Georgopulos, medium.com
“Millennials are 'breaking the constraints' of written English to 'be as expressive as you can be in spoken language.'”— Rachel Thompson, mashable.com
“The political scene in our country has never been so marked by student action, and it is not reckless to predict that this is no aberrant phenomenon but a fundamental shift in social patterns that will distinguish this era from others past.”— Bernice King, twitter.com
“My message, as an aging Gen X-er to millennials and those coming after them, is: Go get us. Take us down — all those cringing provincials who still think climate change is a hoax, that being transgender is a fad or that “socialism” means purges and re-education camps. Rid the world of all our outmod…”— Tim Kreider, mobile.nytimes.com
“Power is like money: imaginary, entirely dependent upon belief. Most of the power of institutions lies in the faith people have in them. And cynicism is also a kind of faith: the faith that nothing can change, that those institutions are corrupt beyond all accountability, immune to intimidation or a…”— Tim Kreider, mobile.nytimes.com
“One of my students once asked me, when I was teaching the writing of political op-ed essays, why adults should listen to anything young people had to say about the world. My answer: because they’re afraid of you. They don’t understand you. And they know you’re going to replace them.”— Tim Kreider, mobile.nytimes.com
“Young people have helped lead all our great movements. How inspiring to see it again in so many smart, fearless students standing up for their right to be safe; marching and organizing to remake the world as it should be. We've been waiting for you. And we've got your backs.”— Barack Obama, twitter.com
“In 200 years, anthropologists will puzzle over why the words that accompanied "lmao" on the internet were never actually funny.”— Maggie Stiefvater, twitter.com
“Me: We're going for a walk. 5-year-old: Is the car broken? Me: No. 5: Then what's the problem?”— James Breakwell, twitter.com
“News flash: Millennials aren't more narcissistic than other generations. We were all a bit more self-centered at 21”— Adam Grant, twitter.com
“Everyone says credit cards are going to dead because millennials don’t want credit cards. False, false, false. Millennials want credit cards, they want experiences and they want to maximize every dollar they spend. They want to travel, they don’t want Rolexes.”— Brian Kelly, tearsheet.co
“And I’m very much in favour of reading. These are very intense experiences of the mind which many of the new generation do not have any more. They read little snippets on Twitter and see little snippets of films on YouTube. And they are pretty much lost, because they do not read, and they are not co…”— Werner Herzog, telegraph.co.uk
“Millennials grandkids are going to complain about big cannabis like we complain about big tobacco.”— nailsharden, reddit.com
“At extreme levels, entitlement is a toxic narcissistic trait, repeatedly exposing people to the risk of feeling frustrated, unhappy and disappointed with life. Often times, life, health, aging and the social world don’t treat us as well as we’d like. Confronting these limitations is especially threa…”— Joshua Grubbs, spring.org.uk
“Dumb ass generation. Bitches scared to love, niggas scared to show emotion. Everybody wanna be hard and heartless.........”— Childish Gambino, twitter.com
“Your twenties are the worst part of your life that you don't actually know at the time is terrible.”— Julie Klausner, amazon.com