Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anne Wojcicki

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

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

This was an extraordinarily generous gift of real estate.

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.

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,

We wanted to put together something that would be used by the general public, but would be used by IDOT personnel or other transportation personnel, as well.

Patrick McHenry

We've had a large undermining of our traditional values in this country. And I think that was a repercussion of the hippies in the '60s and their 'anything goes' attitude. Our generation has a realistic approach. We're not sort of pie-in-the-sky people.

Celso Amorim

We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a precise idea of the numbers.

Women can't see a man's genetic make up. So, they come to prefer good genes on the outside.

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

We're taking a lot of the people out of the market permanently. We're losing a whole generation of investors.

Up to now we've had the luxury of being able to stow away a lots of resources in terms of money for use in the general election. Now we'll start ramping up.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

Jeremy Rifkin

The other major problem with introducing GMOs is gene flow. This is as significant as buildup of resistance, probably more significant.

There is not a smoking gun. What we're seeing is that all the individual genes contribute, but there is no single gene in there that is sufficient to make that virus a killer.

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.

We can take these genes and sequence them,

We have goals for (opposing team) rebounds and they doubled it and some on what our goal is. We slacked off that, but Geneva did a good job of getting in there for those rebounds.

Mike Farrell

When people aren't scared, that's generally time to sell,

There has been steady improvement generally ... Generally, speaking, it's good news.

There is a conflict, there's no question about it. The generals are unhappy.

Louis C. K.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.