Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Coady

A novelist's sense that he or she is 'above' a certain genre mainly comes out of the notion that the genre is somehow a debased version of his or her preferred form.

Harry Blackmun

as a person of judicial integrity who wrote acceptably well and contributed in more than one field. I'd like to be known just as a good worker in the vineyard who held his own and contributed generally to the advancement of the law.

As a general thing to do, I just don't recommend it.

As a general matter, it helps to have him out of the race and presumably out of the news.

Ned Yost

Power-arm guys in spring training generally take a little longer.

Sanctions will be related to a region's general allocation funds.

Benjamin Disraeli

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman

Rick Springfield

Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did,

Peter Drucker

People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.

Lorde

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

Julie Smith

People say I'm insane on a general basis, but that's not the reason.

People generally think that all Minnesotans are just kind of naively nice. I don't think that's the case.

Herbert Spencer

of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Often the process of making prints is similar to making genetic imprints.

Anna Garlin Spencer

No record... can... name the women of talent who were so submerged by child-bearing and its duties, and by general housework, that they had to leave their poems and stories all unwritten.

Nortel is benefiting from a general recovery in the technology stocks in the U.S. as well.

Joss Whedon

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

Craig Venter

The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.

Shane Smith

Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them.

A four-star general will be relocated to Redstone Arsenal,

Brian K. Vaughan

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

Dick Gephardt

So this is what the lobbyists and other wealthy individuals got for their money. They get their overly generous share of the tax bill.

One gentleman was taken to the hospital by a friend. He got a little smoke inhalation.

One gentleman said it was his quest to have gooseberry pie at RAGBRAI. He said he didn't get any the other year until he was getting on the bus.

Yevgeny Primakov

Now a very important moment has come for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to go there (Iraq),

Now, for the first time, there is a general apprehension for everyone.

Oil prices are slipping, and that's generally good news for the market.

Christian Camargo

Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

Will Davis

They have succeeded at everything they've ever done. Inside the industry, this is generating a lot of buzz.

There's a wealth of variations inside the general heading of Spanish music.

There's a strong sensitivity now to interest rate increases, and high-priced stocks such as tech stocks are generally more sensitive to that.

There's been an outpouring of generosity and support.

There's been a general improvement in the leagues over a period of time.