83 Generic Quotes
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Famous Generic Quotes
A broad idea appeals to everyone. — Joe Gatto
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — G. W. F. Hegel
I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. — Paul Rudd
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power. — Herbert M. Shelton
Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence. — Anthony Giddens
No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun. — Nas
When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market. — Reed Hastings
Good design is ubiquitous and forever. — Massimo Vignelli
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. — Brian Eno
Following the herd, average performance, extremes — Howard Marks
Popularity contest, dangerous, buy something at the peak of popularity — Howard Marks
Paradoxical, things that seem obvious, broad consensus — Howard Marks
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. — Alfred North Whitehead
These genetic vaccines are leaky. — Robert W. Malone
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger
Short Generic Quotes
- The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name. — Pope Francis
- Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing. — Gail Dines
- I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. — Henry Rollins
- We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus. — Danny Baker
- There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go. — Robert Plant
- I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative. — Andy Milonakis
- I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb. — Sienna Miller
- Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally. — Drake
- The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style. — John Kricfalusi
- As a child, I was always playing some generic child. — Susan Olsen
Most Generic Quotes
At the moment, most of the data on our gut microbiome is fairly generic, even if you don’t do the personalisation, you’re probably halfway there. — Tim Spector
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. — Carl Linnaeus
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. — Miuccia Prada
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. — Clifford Geertz
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. — Ben Stiller
Generic Name Quotes
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. — Sri Aurobindo
The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ. — Pope Francis
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution. — Aristotle
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. — Colin Hanks
The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name. — Al Ries
Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all. — Reed Mullin
Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had. — Howie Mandel
I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman. — Steven Wright
People Writing About Generic
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Howard Marks |
117 | 1 |
 Joe Gatto |
60 | 1 |
 G. W. F. Hegel |
32 | 593 |
 Paul Rudd |
26 | 169 |
 Herbert M. Shelton |
27 | 181 |
 Anthony Giddens |
22 | 543 |
More Generic Quotes
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. — Ron Wyden
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. — Rob Zombie
Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic prosociality. That’s ethnocentrism and xenophobia. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Branding adds spirit and a soul to what would otherwise be a robotic, automated, generic price-value proposition. If branding is ultimately about the creation of human meaning, it follows logically that it is the humans who must ultimately provide it. — David A. Aaker
I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake. — Max Barry
Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different. — Laura Mercier
Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am. — Alyson Noel
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. — Mark Rothko
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?' — Peter Drucker
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. — Leslie Fiedler
I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever. — Amy Alcott
Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program. — Frederick Crews
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense. — Herbert Spencer
You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to. — Joseph Morgan
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. — Andy Summers
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. — Iris Murdoch
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. — Edward Tufte
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. — Rick Moranis
I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing. — Robert Mangold
But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line. — Peter Cosgrove
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. — Josie Maran
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. — Tim Walker
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. — Matthew Simpson
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. — Richard Roeper
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith. — Karl Lehmann
It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do. — Edgar Wright
I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities. — Mike Birbiglia
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