Top 485 Generally Quotes

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
Wim Wenders
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
H. P. Lovecraft
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.
Joseph C. Lincoln
I’m always looking for a way to get some spice into my cooking but, generally, the French don’t like spicy food.
Rachel Khoo
While I’m generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain
Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I’m not sure we do.
Sam Harris
Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I’m in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
Matt Groening
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous Huxley
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin
I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that’s come about for a whole variety of reasons.
Theresa May
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
I generally only paint people I know, I’m not a flatterer really.
David Hockney
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
Carly Rae Jepsen
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly ‘yes’, but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
Neil Kinnock
I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I’d get it and I’d generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.
Geraldine Brooks
I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin. I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
Tony Finau
Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that’s new enough that people aren’t comfortable with it at first.
Mike D
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.
Rob Sheffield
My mom’s a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I’m just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
Aaron Koblin
Actresses generally aren’t allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn’t considered as versatile.
Rosamund Pike
My wife likes history and documentaries, but I’m not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there’s one of those on.
Andrew Davies
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
A person’s health isn’t generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
Bruce Lipton
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
Stephen Fry
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn’t it?
Anthony Hope
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination – or rather, to be more exact – of the northern hemisphere’s towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
Alva Myrdal
I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don’t generally see art as a career choice; they simply can’t overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work – or give up and get a paying job.
Charles Saatchi
I would walk down the street and people would scream from their cars at me and, generally, I’d turn around and it’s a 13-year-old girl. And it’s funny because that is the audience that I think big studios are always trying to target.
Eugene Lee Yang
Basically, what I do is place a stop, generally 10 to 20 percent below the current price, whenever I buy a stock. The exact level depends on my own analysis of a stock’s trading pattern. If a stock violates this stop, I’m out.
Martin Zweig
Generally, I travel with my own cast to stage plays in different countries.
Y. G. Mahendran
I’m the worst Bond, according to the internet. Generally hated!
Roger Moore
Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.
Robert Fortune
I’ve generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
Bruce Oldfield
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn’t have. It’s very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that’s going wrong in society.
Michael Pollan
My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who’s strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
Chiaki Kuriyama
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
George Savile
Pianists don’t argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
Emanuel Ax
Making a mix CD – albeit slightly old school – is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better.
Ryan Reynolds
I think probably like seeing women fight because we’re generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.
Chiaki Kuriyama
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
It’s generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
Kevin Kelly
Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
Tom Landry
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm
The reason why so little is done, is generally because

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Samuel Smiles
I mean… if you’re raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you’ve ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it’s ‘krauts,’ the ‘gooks,’ the ‘yanks’ – whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it’s not a human being.
Karl Marlantes
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
William Adams
If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way – either from inertia or prejudice – and they stop you achieving things. It’s the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you’re the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
Daley Thompson
Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven’t liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.
David Rubenstein
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
John Buchanan Robinson
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
Ira Glass
A lot of the Warp stuff has infected people’s minds ’cause they’re at the point where they can put tracks out, ’cause electronics are cheaper in America and kids are richer generally.
Sean Booth
I’m generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America – especially with summer movies.
Elmer Bernstein
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.
Dave Barry
We may forget, or be unaware of, how prevalent it is to be sexually traumatized by events that are generally not thought of as traumatizing.
Peter A. Levine
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
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney