Generally Quotes

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

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.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.

We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.