Quotes of: General Keyword

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

Ellis Peters

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his [sic!] time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varese

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

Ethan Zuckerman

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.

Charles Duhigg

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

Chad Hurley

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

Cobi Jones

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.

C.S. Lewis

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'

Carrie Preston

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Charles Sanders Peirce

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

Henry Rollins

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

Ira Glass

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

Isaac Hanson

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.

Imre Kertész

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Iris Murdoch

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

John Bardeen

I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

Dan Scanlon

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Dennis Weaver

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

Elena Anaya

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke