Generally Quotes

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.