Generally Quotes

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

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.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

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

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.