Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

The Girl in 6E

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

The Gathering Storm

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Douglas Horton

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

James Bovard

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Lascelles Abercrombie

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

Malcolm Boyd

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

Robin Ince

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

Samantha Stosur

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

Moby

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

Andrea Bocelli

I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.

Alia Shawkat

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

Gerhard Richter

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes....

Jerry Saltz

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Lafcadio Hearn

It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic ...

Lupe Fiasco

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.

The Atonement Child

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

The Red Queen

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

The Secret Agent

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

Salome