Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindsey Graham

If being intelligent, brilliant, a superb lawyer, the greatest legal mind of your generation and well qualified is not enough, what is?

I don't think we understood that last year, but this year we've gotten better at understanding that we need to pull the next generation along. Next year, they're not going to have any seniors. They have to be ready to do the same things we're doing. Then they'll understand why we're always on them. When it's their turn, they'll be ready.

Roger Taylor

I hate to generalize, but generally speaking I hate it! But what do I know? I'm probably too old for it.

Ira Glass

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

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

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.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

My generation was taught to go to school, get an education, get a job and live happily ever after. Do you see the problem?

John Updike

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

P. J. O'Rourke

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

My general reaction to anything new being put on that parcel next to us is it's going to be an improvement.

One manufacturer isn't the same as another. Someone who manufactures medical supplies may be different than a general manufacturer.

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

Victor Hugo

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

Ira Glass

I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

Ira Glass

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

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.

Ken Ham

The real purpose is to say the Bibles true, and its history. Genesis is true.

Francesca Annis

I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

Douglas Southall Freeman

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

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.

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.