General Quotes

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?