Generally Quotes

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

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

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

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.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.