Famous Quotes & Sayings

The demographic of that meeting was pretty predictable. When I went to my first general managers' meetings in 1991, the demographics were not much different than they are today.

James L. Brooks

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

Adam Smith

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

William Davies

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

The ratio of meetings to patients is probably 10 to 1: Hawaii tomorrow. Geneva and Singapore next week.

Travis Barker

Volunteering is the last thing that this generation is going to do on their own, ... so if this is what it takes to get them to volunteer, then so be it.

Karen Kain

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Keith Sweat

The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.

Walter Dean Myers

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Craig Venter

In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.

Bill Bryson

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

Kris Jenner

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Mohammed Morsi

When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.

Norman Lear

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.

Cynthia Kenyon

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.

David Suzuki

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

Glenn Beck

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

Susan Isaacs

I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person.

Victor Grignard

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

Eric Lindros

I thought we hung in there and got great goaltending again, ... It wasn't our most spectacular (win), but generally a good effort.

Colin Clarke

I thought they did well. The second half we were better, we moved it quicker. Kenny (Cooper) got his goal, they worked hard. I just didn't think our passing in general was for the whole team as sharp as it needed to be in the first 45 minutes.

I think a sheriff must be street smart. In smaller departments like Geneva County, the sheriff is the one to train the deputies.

P. J. O'Rourke

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

We still got a generally weak economy. There's uncertainty about the Middle East, Venezuela and Enron,

We are looking for just a general manager, ... He will set the strategy and the tone. We are just hiring one person.

We are just so happy. We're delighted. We're thankful for everyone's generosity in doing that for our boy.

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?