Generally Speaking Quotes

#1. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.

Josh Kaufman

#2. 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

#3. Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

Mark Slouka

#4. I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing more children coming out of families which simply don't give them adequate resources for their development.

James Heckman

#5. 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

#6. Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people's love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don't want their love.

Julie Burchill

#8. Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Franz Grillparzer

#9. I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

Violet Duke

#10. But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

John Perry Barlow

#11. Generally speaking, we are w-a-y too hard on ourselves!
I used to place enough pressure on myself to crush an elephant!

Daniel Petra

#12. I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Seamus Heaney

#13. Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#14. In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

Stockwell Day

#15. Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

Alexis De Tocqueville

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

Antoine Rivarol

#17. I feel I must acknowledge that gay people are, generally speaking, funnier, more self-sufficient, and better in crises and I should step aside and let them handle the business whenever it comes up.

Thao Nguyen

#18. Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

Kamala Harris

#19. It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

Tom Hollander

#21. But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Gil Kane

#22. Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking, it is inadvisable to trust too much in human nature.

Jose Saramago

#23. I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.

Sherman Alexie

#24. Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#25. 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

#26. Generally speaking, if a guy breaks your jaw and leg and cuts off your robotic arm, you file charges and get a restraining order. The only exception is when subtle machinations are needed to save the world from a massive, catastrophic alien takeover. But in no other circumstance.

Shannon Hale

#27. Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

Barbara Deming

#28. 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

#29. Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses
generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

David Bonderman

#31. Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

Alice Walker

#32. A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing.

Diana Gabaldon

#33. 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

#34. But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Rowan Atkinson

#35. 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

#36. If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.

Alfred Molina

#37. Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

B.R. Ambedkar

#38. 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

#39. Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

George Mikes

#40. Generally speaking, lower-tier grandparents mostly donate time, replacing parental resources, whereas upper-tier grandparents mostly donate money, supplementing parental resources

Robert D. Putnam

#41. Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

Tom Stoppard

#42. I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I.

Maureen Lipman

#43. Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing changes in what already exists, but in defense of the existing order they will not stop at the most ruthless acts.

Leon Trotsky

#44. People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

Jostein Gaarder

#45. Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Wislawa Szymborska

#46. When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

Fran Lebowitz

#47. 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

#48. The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

Gene Robinson

#49. Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse.

James Burnham

#50. ... generally speaking there can be no high-grade obligations of a weak enterprise.

Benjamin Graham

#51. 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

#52. You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Kate Atkinson

#53. It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all; come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.

Franz Kafka

#54. Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.

William Stone

#55. 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

#56. The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

William Styron

#57. I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

Peter Carey

#58. Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

#59. To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.

Paul Auster

#60. Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ...

Hannah Arendt

#61. It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

Cleveland Amory

#62. There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

Mark Rydell

#63. Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they've been told was true. Scientists are no different; they've just been told a lot more things.

Sylvain Neuvel

#64. Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#65. Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

Benjamin Disraeli

#66. Practically every consultant, or 96% of the sample, pointed to "chemistry" as the key factor for winning. But what exactly is chemistry? Generally speaking it is simpatico between the client and agency teams.

Peter Levitan

#67. On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.

Richard Branson

#68. I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

H.L. Mencken

#69. I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.

Colin Hay

#70. It's not disgusting, that little skin that hangs?"
"The foreskin? No, it's okay. I think that generally speaking , a dick isn't really photogenic."
"I quite agree.

Marjane Satrapi

#71. Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others ... By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#72. 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

#73. What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I'm not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

Barbara Kingsolver

#74. Generally speaking, "an eye single to the glory of God" means sacrifice. It means that instead of endlessly doing what we want to do, we have to do what the Lord wants us to do, but we have to do it in his way when he wants us to do it.

Hartman Rector Jr.

#75. Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell.

Lenny Abrahamson

#76. I actually like character work, so for me, generally speaking, I enjoy it. It's a little bit more of a comfortable suit you put back on. You can explore it and have fun with it and push the limits of it.

Ana Gasteyer

#77. Whether in peace or in war, man generally speaking is the best thing that ever happened to the gods.

Jose Saramago

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

Joseph Jacobs

#79. People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

Edward Norton

#80. Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Fran Lebowitz

#81. Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

Neill Blomkamp

#82. The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.

Susan Sontag

#83. Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#84. I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Steven Moffat

#85. Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.

John Kinsella

#86. 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.

Jasper Fforde

#87. Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.

Vitaly Scherbo

#88. Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law

Auberon Waugh

#89. Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

John Wooden

#90. Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#91. Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics

Steven Erikson

#92. Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

John Hodgman

#93. The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.

William J.H. Boetcker

#94. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi

#95. On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

Stephen Sondheim

#96. Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be cured. Dr. Franz Weiss

Rennie Airth

#97. The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.

James Fenton

#98. 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

#99. Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.

George R R Martin

#100. Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it's in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.

Lisa Gardner