Top 236 Generic Quotes & Sayings

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

The value that the generic drug industry brings to the U.S. healthcare system is indisputable.

I'm convinced people are bored of generic travel

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.

Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally.

Rock shrimp is so generic.

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.

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.

Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.

We're a unique band, so why have a generic producer lumping you in a box with other bands that sound the same?

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

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.

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

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'd never wear something that's too generic.

If you do generic things, you know, after a while, brands or designers become stagnated.

My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.

There is no 'generic' Latina.

The higher cost of getting a generic drug approved by regulators means that many old medicines don't face competitors. It's only after substantial price hikes that these drugs offer enough revenue to offset the rising generic entry costs, and start to entice competition.

The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.

We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.

People are starting to understand: all generic companies aren't created equally.

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

Standup is full of young white guys with generic life experiences.

I know, it sounds generic and is a cliche, but coming from a middle class family in Kanpur, it was always the neighbourhood opinions which mattered.

I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.

The days of just being a generic, punch-and-kick wrestler are pretty much over.

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.

Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.

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.

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

EpiPen is not unique. It falls into a category of old drugs, many of which should have long been subject to generic competition.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

I am deeply troubled by Mylan's misclassification of the EpiPen as a generic drug.

The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.

'Chels-emojis' are in the works. I use emojis heavily in life, and I think a lot of people do. There are a number that are frustratingly absent - you know how there's kind of a generic white man and a generic white woman? I just want to put a generic black man and a generic black woman.

It's kind of too generic, a male lead.

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

I know I'm different and I don't fit in to any kind of generic mould.

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.