Generally Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

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.

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.