All Quotes

General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
‐‐ Toussaint Louverture

General consultant to mankind.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.
‐‐ Michael Hastings

General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
‐‐ James Longstreet

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
‐‐ Rand Paul

'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
‐‐ Jack Wagner

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.
‐‐ Gilbert White

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.
‐‐ John Buford

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?
‐‐ John Brown Gordon

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.
‐‐ Jim Talent

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'
‐‐ Michael Hastings

General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.
‐‐ Jim Talent

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
‐‐ James Longstreet

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.
‐‐ Tucker Max

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.
‐‐ Paul Davies

General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
‐‐ Lee Smolin

General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government - is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid.
‐‐ Rick Scott

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.
‐‐ Edward Everett

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
‐‐ Henry Villard

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.
‐‐ Mercy Otis Warren

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

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
‐‐ Bruce Nauman

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
‐‐ Knute Rockne

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
‐‐ Charles Sanders Peirce

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
‐‐ John Lukacs

Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
‐‐ Sally Schneider

Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.
‐‐ Martin Zweig

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.
‐‐ Etgar Keret

Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.
‐‐ Noel Clarke

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
‐‐ Rick Wagoner

Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.
‐‐ Sherilyn Fenn

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia

Generally, I do not talk about people - family or friends. This is how I am.
‐‐ Hasnat Khan

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
‐‐ Sebastian Vettel

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

Generally, I don't like publicity on docs in progress, much less ones that are only in development; I've always tried to stay under the radar in terms of any press, especially with regard to the subjects of the film. I don't want them to be thinking about the film or funding or what the public reaction is going to be.
‐‐ Steve James

Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.
‐‐ David Duchovny

Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.
‐‐ Jeffrey Brown

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.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi