Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

Nikki Reed

What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

Sean Maher

I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for me. It's just so sexy.

Scott Rudin

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

Roger Stone

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Mark Zuckerberg

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

Jennifer Pahlka

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

We were her soldiers. She was only six years older than some of us, and we respected her like we would a general in the Army.

With the general tone about patient volumes muted this winter, we suspect part of this recent weakness relates to the quarter, suggesting that a lot of today's news is already priced in.

You can generally talk about many things, as long as it's not, you know, a turnoff or offensive.

I think the taxpayers of Missouri would feel better served if the governor spent more time in Jefferson City, ... I think this is more true as the governor in general has become more powerful in the state.

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.

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

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,

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.

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 do not generally see massive outbreaks after these events.

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.

Wade Horn

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

Yingluck Shinawatra

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

Only in the sense of the general threat that people who lie about their identities and backgrounds would pose.

Nick's usually my top guy and the rest are bunched up. But I think the guys in general did pretty well. We hadn't seen a lot of the teams who are here.

Luis Suarez

On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead.

One of the reasons why we're a successful team is that we're generally on the same page. It's not very often that we go to the paddock and I'm thinking I want to go to the lead and he's thinking he wants to come from last.

Anthony Dawson

One of the problems with that is that author's lives and works in general don't always correlate,