In General Quotes

#1. It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

Marianne Moore

#2. But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general.

Bernhard Langer

#3. Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

William Bennett

#4. Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from the studio or marketing, and all of that, you get to actually present fuller characters and you get to have the dark side of the characters. That's usually what gets cut out.

Ty Burrell

#5. We have access to more resources in general, and they are not going to force a situation on us, whether its the producer, or the cover, or what songs we have to play. And it's a small enough company that it seems like the people there care about music and not just about business.

Mike Gordon

#6. One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

Colleen Atwood

#7. In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

Garry Kasparov

#8. I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.

Samuel Johnson

#9. In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Axl Rose

#10. Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

Charles E. Wilson

#11. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#12. I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

Olivier Dahan

#13. Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

Luigi Pirandello

#14. In general, I tried not to take myself too seriously - I called myself "the manalyst," after all. My life's motto: Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck.

Kresley Cole

#15. I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

Louis Menand

#16. Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.

Tom Robbins

#17. Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

Nat Wolff

#18. You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

Patrick Cockburn

#19. In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.

Roger Ailes

#20. I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.

Clint Eastwood

#21. In general, the reason things are on your mind is that the outcome and the action step(s) have not been appropriately defined, and/or reminders of them have not been put in places where you can be trusted to look for them appropriately.

David Allen

#22. American art in general ... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

John Updike

#23. In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.

William J. Clinton

#24. In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.

Victoria Chang

#25. And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

Thomas Malthus

#27. I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men' comic books. I read a couple 'Scott Pilgrim' this past year, and those are really good, but I don't read in general, unfortunately.

Charlyne Yi

#28. I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

Christopher McQuarrie

#29. It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another.

Mikhail Bakunin

#30. Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is definitely an interest.

Steve Nash

#31. You broke me bodily.
The heart ain't the half of it,
And I'll never learn to laugh at it
In my good natured way.
In fact, I'm laughing less in general,
But I learned a lot at my own funeral.
And I knew you'd be the death of me,
So I guess that's the price I pay.

Ani DiFranco

#32. I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don't follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone's heart.

Juanes

#33. For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

Tom Stoppard

#34. No feminist whose concern for women stems from concern for justice in general can ever legitimately allow her only interest to be the advantage of women.

Janet Radcliffe Richards

#35. Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

#36. We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.

Larry Page

#37. In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Denis Diderot

#38. In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#39. Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.

Andrew Rosenthal

#40. Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

James Madison

#41. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Fredrika Bremer

#42. There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

H. G. Bissinger

#43. George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for his leadership and courage to defend the sanctity of life, and to tell the truth at all costs.

Beverly LaHaye

#44. Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

Clifford Geertz

#45. Without an organized space life in general feels unorganized and overwhelming which results in a complete lack of productivity.

Jessie Fuller

#46. In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

Daniel Ek

#47. Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Felix Klein

#48. Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

Raf Simons

#49. It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it.

Nell Newman

#50. School, in general, was not great. Children are just mean to each other ... but by high school, I probably stopped being annoying to people, and people stopped being mean. By the end of it, it was wonderful.

Eugene Mirman

#51. It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.

Andrea Bocelli

#52. I know it is strange to feel an emotional connection to a garment, but strange seems to summarize my thinking process in general.

Katie Kacvinsky

#53. The remission to Abu Bakar Bashir is not a reflection on the individual per se rather than the application of the remission program, which is applied in general.

Marty Natalegawa

#54. I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part ... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.

Barry Manilow

#55. and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law." "And is

Xenophon

#56. I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.

Liz Phair

#57. Everyday i meet with clients including widows and divorcees who have the same fears about money and it's my role to empower them, and women in general, to take control of their finances and create a plan.

Maili Wong

#58. In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

Sam Altman

#59. The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.

Robert James Waller

#60. John Adams commented after one disastrous defeat, In general, our Generals were outgeneralled.

Anonymous

#61. It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.

Sara Bareilles

#62. I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

Louis Menand

#63. Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

Oscar Fernandes

#64. I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together.

John Michael Montgomery

#65. In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

Martin Yan

#66. Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

Eminem

#67. I think it's a deeper issue on the lack of communication in our culture in general. It's not abnormal to see a family out to dinner and every person is on their phone instead of communicating with each other and that's pretty sad.

Laura Benanti

#68. I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

Steve Carell

#69. American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

Richard Ayoade

#70. The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.

Macklemore

#71. I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the work in general was never properly mastered in the first place. To me, making the music sound the way we wanted it was by far my biggest goal with the re-issues.

Gavin Friday

#72. State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.

Charles Dickens

#73. There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family.

Kristopher Belman

#74. What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

Tom Robbins

#75. Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.

W. Kamau Bell

#76. To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre De Fermat

#77. I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

Jack Nicklaus

#78. Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

John Piper

#79. I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

Ana Monnar

#80. But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for ... describing a scene will be found to be very small.

Elizabeth Bowen

#81. What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Adam Arkin

#82. Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from 1895 onwards and the colonies that resulted were among the consequences.

Martin Jacques

#83. I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.

Jim Lee

#84. Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Julius Caesar

#85. I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.

Clark Duke

#86. Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.

Justin Vernon

#87. Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.

Roxane Gay

#88. Kings, ministers, aristocrats, the rich in general, kept the people in poverty and subjection; they kept them as they kept dogs, to fight and hunt for their service.

Joseph Conrad

#89. The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

James C. Scott

#90. In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

David Perlmutter

#91. I love humanity,' he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#92. fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

Ken Liu

#93. Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

Rafael Nadal

#94. I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

Gloria Steinem

#95. Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.

Thomas Bulfinch

#96. I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

Nicki Minaj

#97. Just so you know, I hate camping. I'm not so much appreciating the fact that there's no bathroom out here. 'Nature calls' while walking in nature is on my list of least favorite things. You tigers, and men in general, have it so much easier than us girls.

Colleen Houck

#98. No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

John Peter Zenger

#99. There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#100. Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

Richard Engel