Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonya Hartnett

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

Eric Chavez

I think we're back into feeling comfortable about scoring runs. I think hitting's really gonna dictate how well we do next month.

David Lowry

I think it's really important for us to set a good tone for the end of the season, really come out and execute our game plan, dictate the tempo of the game, ... I think one of the things we have this year is that we are all perfectionists and we are all trying to get that perfect game going and we haven't had that yet.

Dave Stewart

I will keep it tight for the first round, take a good look at him and take it from there. I intend to outbox him; I like to dictate the pace and to keep things sharp.

Gerard Butler

He will dictate if we go at the weekend and where we go,

Brian McInerney

Right now our flood threat is ... dictated by what kind of snow pack is in the mountains.

Owen Fitzpatrick

In general it's going to be that type of week where the number of the day dictates the market.

Tyson Chandler

The game dictates when you have to step up and make a big play. When you have the opportunity, it feels great to rise to the occasion.

Aimee Carter

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.

Brian Cashman

He's a unique player. Not only is he someone who is incredibly talented on the field, but that talent actually translates to success in New York,

Paul Gregg

I think it's incredibly sad at the moment that we are actually contemplating selling Wayne Rooney,

Colin Egglesfield

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Donald Stewart

It invites chaos. Leaving a job precipitously is just incredibly foolish.

Annalee Newitz

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

Jason Treutelaar

He was incredibly strong as we sealed up the win. He took it to the hole.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.

Stella Young

In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

Andy Cheng

The object has not been co-operative at all. It is an incredibly nasty place to land,

Sarah Mlynowski

I always work from an outline.

Martin Selmayr

She will also outline her plan for the regulation and submit it to public consultation until end of April.

Whitney M. Young

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

Julia Gillard

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Marshall McLuhan

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Nancy Kress

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Peter Tork

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Len Wiseman

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I like fast plots with things that explode.

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Mary Roach

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Jeffrey Hirsch

There tends to be a lot of housecleaning from institutions in September,

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Mark Hendrickson

That's always been my tendency the first inning of spring.

Pope Francis

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!