Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Johnson

We're often kind and benevolent to senior executives who fail,

Bob Dozier

I just think it's destiny. God looks out for good people. Jerome is a good citizen, and he's a benevolent person in the community. It's destiny for him to start in Detroit and end in Detroit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

Eric Hoffer

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep

Jane Miller

Not only has it contributed from a financial standpoint but from a benevolent standpoint as well,

Tom Baker

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Atharva Veda

The one, who is benevolent and liberal enjoys peace, happiness and prosperity.

Ann Nocenti

Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.

Gavin Redknap

Brown will hope that his performance (on Wednesday) will help to change the public's perception of him from stern chancellor to benevolent potential future prime minister.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Ken Hill

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Tim Reitz

I was always a theater buff. One of the best things is to have your own character to craft and design.

Bob Stoops

Kirk and Dan are great friends of mine. I do my best to watch the game and not root for either one.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Archibald Hill

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Ann Nocenti

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

Richard Masur

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Tatiana Maslany

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Tanith Lee

There are the characters who die but who you follow after death, and they often lead much more interesting lives after they are dead! So the characters usually drive me along, but occasionally the plot has to come first. It can get sticky.

Lisi Harrison

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

Kelly Preston

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

Darrick Martin

Me and Mike (James) were talking the other day about it. This is very rare, to find a team that pulls together, all 12 guys. At some point, especially since we're having a rough season, you tend to have cliques that develop or people point fingers. And we don't have that on this team. That's very rare in the NBA.

Russell Smith

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

Padgett Powell

I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.

Jeremy McGrath

James has a lot of fans. Maybe some African-American people didn't like our sport so much because it was dominated by White people, but now the demographics, with James in there, it's mixed up. I think it's great.

Nancy Diers

Kate on the front line and Brianna on the back line pretty much summed it up. Brianna needed to get back to serving well and needed to start taking it personal. Kate dominated at the net. They scored more than a game's worth of points between them.

Craig Faire

Kayla just dominated the game. I thought the game would be closer.

John Kessel

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

Norm Cook

Joe did a super job for us. The Northeast really dominated that first period, and he held us in. All three goaltenders did well.

Brian Elliott

He just dominated in his position, and you could see that as he graduated to the National Hockey League.

Gerald Wallace

This was a game from the opening tip that we felt like we could have won. We dominated the whole game where we did what we wanted to do on offense, and took them out of what they wanted to do on their offense. They made some key plays down the stretch and we didn't.

Scott Mellanby

I thought we were ready to play. I think we dominated stretches of the game.

Thomas Schaaf

I think the loss was justified because we stopped playing in the second half. We dominated the first half -- we could have led 3-0.

Keke Palmer

I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Steve Dunn

Jacob threw 84 pitches and gave up one earned run. He's one of those pitchers we're looking at, who can come in and solidify that third spot.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Richard Milich

Kids with ADHD tend to have reading problems, so that's one outlet that's less open to them. They have peer problems. They often are not very good at sports, so that's another outlet less open to them. Part of the reason they watch more TV may be because that's one of few things they can comfortably do.

Patrick Rishe

I wouldn't say that he is all the way back. He's taken some of the right steps, but I think there has been too little time and too few championship rings in the last three years on his fingers to make people and corporations forget about his missteps completely.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Ryan Hinds

Jamaica is a very experienced side. They have a few West Indies players. It is going to be a very competitive game. We are looking forward to the challenge, and we are looking for an outright win.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Pat Hogan

Just looking at their (Northwest's flight) monitors, I'm seeing very, very few problems. Everything looks like it's on time.

Anita Diament

I'm not a literary writer. I didn't go to whatever school it is or have the mentor you need to get reviewed in the New York Times.

Joanne Kelly

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Henry Rollins

It's hard to judge literary merit.

Nancy Pearcey

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Ken Follett

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Pope Francis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Lili Taylor

My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.

Pierce Brosnan

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

Shekhar Kapur

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

E. Hicks

We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.

Rob Corddry

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

Willem de Kooning

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

Wislawa Szymborska

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Will Rogers

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

Kerry Greenwood

If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.

Eric Hoffer

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Terence McKenna

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...

Louis Tomlinson

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?