#gene

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life. ↗

— James Ellroy

#clenched #down #general #i #life

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#everybody #generational #history #internalized #knows

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#carry #feet #general #get #golf

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#author #critics #ever #generation #his

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#critics #ever #generation #his #idea

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment. ↗

— Curt Flood

#apart #customary #does #environment #existed

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise. ↗

— Curt Flood

#black #general #general manager #get #going

People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#ask #attorney #attorney general #attracted #bill

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #being #come #composers #credentials

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation. ↗

— John M. Ford

#ambiguity #been #deal #events #generally