Generally Quotes

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I've learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.