Quotes About Sweeping Generalizations

#1. Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#2. Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water.

Elif Shafak

#3. Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

Aldous Huxley

#4. Did you ever notice that most of us relate to our lives like we have no control or say over them? Especially in areas where we're not proud. We speak about ourselves like we're reporting on the weather, making sweeping generalizations...And boy do we ever believe our own 'forecasts.

Lauren Handel Zander

#5. Not to make sweeping generalizations about men, but I can pretty well guess how this conversation would go down. Jack: Everything okay? You seem down in the mouth lately. Maxime: It is fine. Jack: Okay, just checking. See ya.

Jennifer Coburn

#6. Sweeping generalizations are easy, but we are more alike than we are different. Our focus and interests may vary, or not, but to dismiss something as less relevant is a missed opportunity.

Deborah Stanish

#7. I hate it when people throw big sweeping generalizations at you that you can't even begin to interpret.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.

Chris Cosentino

#10. Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

Gene Kranz

#11. The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

Paul Newman

#12. I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

Kristy Swanson

#13. Your Mama's so stupid"- Lassiter dematerialized and re-formed on the far side, spinning the rods- "she thinks a California dime is something you dial a phone with." ~ Lassiter

' The Shadows' page 11

J.R. Ward

#14. You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.

Timur Bekmambetov

#15. I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It's one of our senses and it's be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.

Nacho Figueras

#16. Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

Gerard Depardieu

#17. With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Ray Bradbury