Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Doyle

She's very outgoing, pleasant, and generally likes what she's doing.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

Nikki Reed

What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

Ethan Zuckerman

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

Christopher Darden

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

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,

Gregory Maguire

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

Seamus Heaney

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Abby Wambach

Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

Ben Carson

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

Trey Gowdy

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

Bill White

We are not encouraging the general public to go into the streets looking for shelter,

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Wade Horn

We're not surprised at what the inspector general found.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

We do archive medical records and things of that nature that are required by law. But in terms of general data, e-mail, it's not as extensive.

Jeff Carter

We want to make sure it's a positive thing. In general I think a good thing is happening.

Rudolph Valentino

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

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.

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.