General Quotes

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league Ford, General Motors, so many of them.

We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the ideology behind these programs.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.

I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

General James Mattis is a storied and much-respected military leader.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

Pops added, "you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected, " (Katherine) replied.

As a general rule the one who is not easily accessible is more valuable.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public