Generic Quotes

79 quotes by 76 authors

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program. — Frederick Crews
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroyingâ€”or at least deconstructingâ€”conventional ideas… — Miuccia Prada
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens… — Stephen De Staebler
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption.… — Mike Lofgren
As a child, I was always playing some generic child. — Susan Olsen
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?' — Peter Drucker
Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different. — Laura Mercier
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… — 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
Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing. — Gail Dines
I want to avoid becoming too styled, too â€˜doneâ€™ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become… — Emma Watson
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… — Matthew Simpson
Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I… — Howard Schultz
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… — Rob Zombie
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. — Lisa Schwarzbaum
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. Dakota… — Lisa Schwarzbaum
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
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… — Tim Walker
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… — Edward Tufte
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… — Leslie Fiedler

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