(1598 quotes found)
“A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.”
Charles de Lint
“I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.”
Rebecca Romijn Stamos
“Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.”
Alan Bennett
“Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.”
John Berryman
“The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.”
George Soros
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail”
Alfred North Whitehead
“The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.”
Denis Diderot
“While the Pope owns 51% of General Motors And the stock exchange is the only thing he's qualified to quote us”
George Harrison
“A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l”
John Allen Paulos
“HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.”
Ambrose Bierce
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