Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
In general, insurers say criticisms of claims-handling are unfair because most policyholders are paid promptly, and some denials are necessary to root out fraud.
Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin
When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
