Generic Quotes
Generic Quote of the day
When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.
Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.
I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.
The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people
Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.
You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.
I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
That's another thing yo rappers are scared to bring new styles out. There's so many different ways we can be flowing but everybody chooses to flow the generic way.
If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.
I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.
money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!
The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.
It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.
People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.