Famous Quotes & Sayings

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

Christopher Reeve

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Marianne Williamson

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

Yields are going to be rising in general and there's going to an unwinding of the flattening.

Diane Ackerman

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

Bill Laswell

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

Bill Bryson

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

Brendan Myers

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

We have to be responsive to the marketplace. This young generation now in its 20s likes choices. We saw that in marketing products to them when they were teenagers.

This was an extraordinarily generous gift of real estate.

Anne Wojcicki

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

We're the last generation that has these survivors pretty much.

The graphic is generating a lot of information, a lot of calls,

Bernie Sanders

General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.

Megan Hilty

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

While the MEAP scores are not necessarily a reflection of the school system, in general it's the only measurement people look at,

The reason they went with Buckley was that now that they're a lean mean machine, it's time to start growing that top line and generating some returns.

George Brett

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

Alex Lifeson

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

Alex Lifeson

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Anthony Horowitz

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.

Ariel Pink

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

When you have a generic policy that says 'all,' it's the same as having no policy at all. We should be moved to action, but also disciplined so that what we do is good, not just feel-good.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Carrie Preston

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.'

With every generation of collections stuff gets slimmer and slimmer and slimmer.

Robert Lanza

We need to be honest with ourselves that a human embryo is a human embryo whether or not Cdx2 or any other gene is knocked out.

When the general market gets a cold, the IPO market gets pneumonia. It's that kind of relationship.

When the general manager comes in, you know what's next. Something's going on. When he walks in and you don't see the head coach, you know something's wrong.

Richard Lloyd

We welcome the growing range of certified coffees offered by the big roasters but we want to see a general contribution to long-term sustainability, not a token nod.

Kara Swisher

While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.

With 1.3 million associates, we are no different than the trends we see in the general population.

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.