All Quotes

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
‐‐ Dirk Benedict

Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
‐‐ Eddie Bernice Johnson

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
‐‐ John Hodgman

Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.
‐‐ Matthew Rhys

Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.
‐‐ Brent Sexton

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.
‐‐ Robert Redford

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
‐‐ Thom Yorke

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
‐‐ Anne Frank

Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don't care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician's armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.
‐‐ Paul Merton

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
‐‐ James Fenton

Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.
‐‐ Linwood Barclay

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
‐‐ David Hume

Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
‐‐ Chris Pine

Generally speaking, the people who come to work at Snapchat believe in personal growth. It's part of why Snapchat's stories are ephemeral, because you will be a different person tomorrow.
‐‐ Evan Spiegel

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
‐‐ Kamala Harris

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
‐‐ Miyamoto Musashi

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
‐‐ Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.
‐‐ Ron Bloom

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
‐‐ John Gray

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
‐‐ Theodore White

Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They'd much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.
‐‐ Peter Berg

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
‐‐ Ira Glass

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
‐‐ Herb Ritts

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.
‐‐ Leon Charney

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.
‐‐ Jahangir Khan

Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.
‐‐ Laura Wasser

Generally, there are three rules when it comes to borrowing money: You need to have good credit, proof of income and cash for a down payment. Most people have the first two, but it's the third that trips them up. And nowhere does that come into play more than the mortgage market.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

Generally, variations in earnings aren't nearly as impactful on glamour growth stocks as are changes in image and, well, sexiness. I often think of glamour stocks as though they are attractive women dressing to the nines.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

Generally, we try to have a situation where the person is healthy, so you're not confounded by disease. So, that means that healthy individuals are donating their blood samples for the studies.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
‐‐ Patricia Polacco

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.
‐‐ Sergio Aragones

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.
‐‐ Andrew Mason

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.
‐‐ John Scofield