Famous Quotes & Sayings

I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

Kofi Annan

I think this is a once in a generation opportunity that we have to do this,

Kevin Powell

I think this generation has a very 'me, me' attitude, and it's to our detriment.

I'm still reasonably optimistic that we will perhaps have a second round of Geneva talks.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

We generate $1 million a day in taxes for the state.

We generally find that if it?s warm over the hill, they?re going to be heading here.

Pat Gillick

We have a very generous budget, ... We have sufficient money to do the things we need to do. We have to be imaginative and allocate the money properly.

Victor Webster

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Like the general manager of any championship team, I'd like to keep everyone together,

Alex Miller

I was having a hard time generating power between the shots that I was getting and the wind. I usually play more of a power game. I'm not really a consistency-type player.

Bobby Valentine

I was in a room with my general manager and afterward someone reported not what I said, but what someone who wasn't in the room said.

It exploded. Since last summer, we've had 50 million hits. We generally get between 500,000 and 800,000 hits a day.

I think poetry was meant to be heard out loud. I am not doing this for the money. What I do is done from a passionate place inside of me, because I feel very strongly that young people need a positive outlet and some kids have that through sports, and some have it through music or art. Kids who have it through poetry generally aren't heard. They all can't be good at football.

I think Pepsi is in a great situation. Pepsi could get this done at $90 per share now and really generate some shareholder value.

It doesn't surprise me. People generally underestimate what they're going to spend for the holidays.

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

Joe Sacco

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

We can say genetics plays a strong role.

We do not generally see massive outbreaks after these events.

Nick Lowe

We do make a small margin on each track that's sold at the store. But because it's Coke, there isn't a requirement for the store to be generating a profit for the store to operate.

We don't want to overwhelm students. We just want them to know what it's about and give them general ideas on how to make it happen.

We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, ... even those who aren't helping us directly.

We'll generate between 35 to 40 million individual page use.

E. F. Schumacher

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

E. F. Schumacher

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Wade Horn

We're not surprised at what the inspector general found.

August Wilson

We are running out of energy, mental energy, ... We need to generate something new, for ourselves.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

Polling tells us that this generation is very interested in doing public service, but they're more likely to look to the non-profit sector to scratch that itch.