Generally Quotes

We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

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.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.