Generally Quotes

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.