Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

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.

Deborah Eisenberg

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

Sean Maher

I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for me. It's just so sexy.

Scott Rudin

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

Roger Stone

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Mark Zuckerberg

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

Jennifer Pahlka

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

We were her soldiers. She was only six years older than some of us, and we respected her like we would a general in the Army.

When I saw him after 9/11, he was the quietest I'd ever seen him. But he's generally incredibly upbeat.

Henry Spencer

Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated.

Henry Knox

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

Andrew Marr

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

Victor Webster

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

We do not generally see massive outbreaks after these events.

We don't want to overwhelm students. We just want them to know what it's about and give them general ideas on how to make it happen.

We are torn about helping HIV-positive people when the general population is also starving.

We had two or three of them who were really solid in general knowledge.

With the general tone about patient volumes muted this winter, we suspect part of this recent weakness relates to the quarter, suggesting that a lot of today's news is already priced in.