Famous Quotes & Sayings

I can't recall a four-star general ever being called on as a witness.

Noah Taylor

I have been working on this project trying to record a little record a month just at home in a different genre for each one,

David Liss

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

I'd like to see another 15-year-old girl -- or a 15-year-old in general -- do that. There's not many guys in this tournament who can hit that shot.

Alexander Hamilton

I do not think it for the interest of the general government itself, and still less of the union at large, that the state governments should be so little respected as they have been.

Patrick Byrne

I can generally tell what a guy is saying at home from what his spouse says after a glass of wine or three,

I always wanted to be a general manager.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Carl von Clausewitz

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

C. S. Lewis

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Bryant H. McGill

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Alain de Botton

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Al Gore

We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

Charles Churchill

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Barbara Bush

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Edmund Spenser

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

Edward Norton

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Sergei Ivanov

We should reduce the number of generals and admirals to maintain the ratio of one senior officer per thousand servicemen.

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

Steve Martin

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

Asa Gray

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Iain McGilchrist

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Imogen Poots

I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

Ian Schrager

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

Gerry Harvey

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Benazir Bhutto

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Eden Sher

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.

Anna Akhmatova

We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.