General Quotes

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.

I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.

Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule.

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.