Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

C. S. Lewis

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Al Gore

We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

Edward Norton

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

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?

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Iain McGilchrist

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Imogen Poots

I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

Ian Schrager

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

Gerry Harvey

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Benazir Bhutto

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Anna Akhmatova

We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

Doris Lessing

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Cris Judd

I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

Douglas Coupland

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

Ann Patchett

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Chuck Palahniuk

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Amanda Burton

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

What it means right now is that Greenland is producing 20 percent of the sea rise. We think that contribution will increase from generation to generation.

E. O. Wilson

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.