Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Turow

Generally speaking most of the people I saw who were irretrievably violent, were people who had had violence done to them as children.

Generally speaking, if a student is interested in a program they can get in the program. Though some programs require teacher recommendations, initial student interest is the impetus,

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

Generally it's doing very well in the theaters where we have it.

Martin Rees

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.

General market sentiment remains quite positive, ... Of course, oil could be a spoiler if it moves higher.

Ray Thompson

Generally you think that all musicians are hardcore rockers or party-going lunatics, but that's not always the case, ... Nathan is a youth worship leader and a wonderful person.

Thomas Jane

Generally I just look and see if it would be a movie that I would pay $7.00 to see... What is it, $9.00 now?... $9.00 to see.

Peter Capaldi

Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.

General Barker was a guy that was kind of larger than life.

General Adan is retiring next month and he is trying to get public attention.

Lois Lowry

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

But I generally just work things out on stage, because you're just going to say things up there differently than you would type them.

The minority status of the institution is a legal matter. But there is a general perception that AMU is a minority institution,

Mark Jones

Their image is not as important as that of a salesperson, but they have to have some pretty good general interpersonal skills and (demonstrate) that integrity and trust factor.

Conrad Black

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Rick Springfield

Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did,

Peter Drucker

People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.

John Sherman Cooper

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

Ronald Harwood

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

There's a wealth of variations inside the general heading of Spanish music.

There's a strong sensitivity now to interest rate increases, and high-priced stocks such as tech stocks are generally more sensitive to that.

There's been a general improvement in the leagues over a period of time.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

There will be strong investor interest in commodities in general for years to come. Metals will be solid investments.

Steve Spurrier

I tried to get the Redskins to hire him as the general manager, ... Shows you how much influence I had.

Kevin Towers

You're never off, ... That's one of the things about being the general manager of the Yankees - you're always on call. The intensity is always there. That's pretty obvious just in talking to Brian. You can always sense the importance of every moment and how much there is going on around him.

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Bob Fitzsimmons

Younger people especially, I urge them to open a Roth. Being able to get tax-free withdrawals is very powerful, so the general notion is you should look to the Roth IRA right away.

O. Henry

I imagined Theo was going to be general manager for the rest of my life.

I have two older brothers, the general and David, who is a teacher. My sister, Sarah, also is a teacher.

James Gleick

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.