Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Brett

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

Alex Lifeson

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

Alex Lifeson

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Diane Ackerman

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

Bill Laswell

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

Bill Bryson

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

Brendan Myers

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

We have to be responsive to the marketplace. This young generation now in its 20s likes choices. We saw that in marketing products to them when they were teenagers.

This was an extraordinarily generous gift of real estate.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

David Platt

And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

Jeremy Rifkin

The other major problem with introducing GMOs is gene flow. This is as significant as buildup of resistance, probably more significant.

There is not a smoking gun. What we're seeing is that all the individual genes contribute, but there is no single gene in there that is sufficient to make that virus a killer.

Those three projects will generate about $28 million in one-time fees.

What people don't realize is that it was a really big hangout for the younger generation in Hoboken.

We give the schools their tickets first, and then we go about selling the rest of them to the general public.

There has been steady improvement generally ... Generally, speaking, it's good news.

There is a conflict, there's no question about it. The generals are unhappy.

Louis C. K.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

We think this is the way to generate more revenue and we will put it back in the payroll in order to support the team.

Chuck Close

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

Women in general are interested in this kind of thing. It's just an opportunity for them to get together, learn about their health and have fun.

Women have always been more responsible about health than the general population.

Lech Walesa

Why did we do all of it? To launch a new epoch, one without divisions. Without one shot, our generation was able to do it.

George Allen

Why can't you be more like Gene Upshaw?

To save historic structures they have to be repurposed. We're looking for the renewal of the General Wayne Inn.

To save historic structures, they have to be repurposed. We're looking for the renewal of the General Wayne Inn.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Iain McGilchrist

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Imogen Poots

I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

Ian Schrager

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

Gerry Harvey

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.