Quotes of: General-assembly Keyword

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

T. E. Lawrence

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

Taylor Mali

A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.

Terence McKenna

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Timothy Noah

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

Kenneth Noland

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.

Ken Starr

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

Kerry Washington

I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

Laz Alonso

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

Laurieann Gibson

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Lee Iacocca

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

Lennie James

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Lane Kirkland

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Leon Kass

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Linda Lingle

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Lois Lowry

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

Margaret Atwood

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don’t know how to read them.

Martin Buber

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Michael Douglas