Generally Quotes

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 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.

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

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.

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.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

Time is generally the best doctor.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

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.