“I blow my load over the status-quo, here we go.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
"Smooth Sailing", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
Harvard interview (February 2004)
“I blow my load over the status-quo, here we go.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
"Smooth Sailing", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
Scott Ashjian (1963) American businessman
[Jourdan, Kristi, Tea Party hopeful - gives voters third choice, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1B, March 8, 2010]
“Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Address Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States — Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles (15 July 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project --> <br class="br">1960 <br class="br">Context: Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.
John McDonnell (1951) British politician (born 1951)
Source: Brexit: PM and Corbyn holding meeting over cross-party talks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48271650 BBC News (14 May 2019)
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
Max Eastman (1883–1969) American activist
Attributed by internet sources to Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics (1939), but not confirmed. <br class="br">Source: Enjoyment of Poetry With Anthology for Enjoyment of Poetry (1951), p. 233 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/oV5emKH2uhcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=status%20quo <br class="br">Source: The quote appears to have been first published in the essay "The Slogan, 'Propaganda Has No Place in Art,' Is The Symptom Of A Decaying Culture" https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/WX3NyDFUC_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=eastman, Stage Magazine (1934).
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Forbes "Lean And Meaningful: What Founders Still Need To Fix In The 21st Century" https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyinverso/2016/02/10/lean-and-meaningful-what-founders-still-need-to-fix-in-the-21st-century/#1a89897a2389. February 29, 2016 issue.
Ronda Rousey (1987) American judoka, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and actress
"Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned", in Esquire.com (26 December 2012) http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a17607/ronda-rousey-mma-quotes-0113/
“I am not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
This is a quote by Newt Gingrich, first appearing in an article in the Los Angeles Times in 1991. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-25/magazine/tm-2004_1_newt-gingrich/2 <br class="br">Misattributed