Top 1200 General Lee Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.

I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.

Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.

I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.

To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

Everybody watches Bruce Lee. That's a legend. He's the man!

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.

Any match with Keith Lee is definitely circled on my calendar.

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

Not everybody knows I'm Bruce Lee's daughter.

Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

I hope Lee's scandal isn't real.

Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.

Bruce Lee has fascinated me since childhood.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that.

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

Sammy Lee is another inbred player

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?

If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

'Malcolm X' is my favorite Spike Lee movie.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

I was on the road with Jerry Lee Lewis when I was 15 - I can't imagine not doing it. That's what I do.

I loved Jamie Lee Curtis. I think she is brilliant.

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.

It was cool to meet Stan Lee.

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.

General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long... There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

It was an honor to meet the iconic Stan Lee.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

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.

How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to General Stanley McChrystal in Iraq.