Quotes of: Generation-gap Keyword

General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: We will build those underground fortifications. And fight till the end.

Letters from Iwo Jima

Jack Crabb: You're not going to hang me. General Custer: Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision.

Little Big Man

General Custer: Nothing in this world is more surprising than the attack without mercy!

Little Big Man

Roger Murtaugh: [to Joshua] Looking for your general friend? He's barbecuing his nuts on Hollywood Blvd.

Lethal Weapon

Trapper John: General, you can't blame Henry because Hot Lips can't stand her name.

MASH

General Broulard: There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Paths of Glory

General Mireau: If those little sweethearts won't face German bullets, they'll face French ones!

Paths of Glory

General Broulard: Colonel Dax, are you trying to blackmail me? Colonel Dax: It's an ugly word, but you are in a difficult situation.

Paths of Glory

Soldier: What silly son of a bitch is in charge of this operation? General Omar N. Bradley: I don't know, but they oughta hang him.

Patton

General Hummel: You made a terrible mistake, and more of our brothers have died in vain. Damn you for forcing me into this position.

The Rock

General Grievous: Crush them! Make them suffer!

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Chef: Haven't you heard of the Emancipation Proclamation? General: I don't listen to hip-hop.

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

Stephen Hawking: [speaking for the first time on his speech-generating device] My name is Stephen Hawking.

The Theory of Everything

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

Dave Chappelle

In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

Nick Kroll

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

Elihu Root

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

Francis Crick

Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.

Hanna Rosin

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Michael Pollan

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Marquis de Sade