Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

If they suggested something specific as a change, it went on the list. If it was a general comment, it didn't.

New projects will generally have more support (for tolls). There's such a shortage of regular tax funds.

Jim Haslett

(New Orleans) isn't a big city, but they love the Saints. It's the only place I've been to where they know the players, the scouts, the general manager, the (team) personnel.

Obviously the process and results of these management reforms will be to weaken the General Assembly.

B. F. Skinner

Obviously, I would've preferred them to say you're general manager, but I'm hoping that's what I'll get.

Tom Wilson

Right now it's just general maintenance. We're trying to stabilize them so they don't melt away into the ground when it rains. This time last year, it was raining like mad and there was erosion.

Bob McAdoo

Revenues and expenses, ex-items, were generally in-line with our expectations.

More Americans seem generally lazy while many undocumented immigrants work harder for less pay because they want a better life and know what's at stake in getting that life.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

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.

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.

Bill White

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

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,

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.

Susan Isaacs

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

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.