Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Anil Kapoor

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Alla Nazimova

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Alison Lohman

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alison Elliott

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

Alison Pill

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Ann Brashares

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Ann Brashares

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?".

Robertson Davies

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster

Linda Evans

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there's nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

Aidan Gillen

I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.

Michael Slonaker

He talks to every person on campus. He meets everybody with a smile. You'll see him smiling at everybody. Everybody knows his name.

Paul Reiser

He is an undervalued treasure of American cinema, ... What I'm finding as we're traveling around is that everybody loves this guy. He's been so good for so long. I see it in people's faces. Women want to hug him and guys want to give him a pat on the back. I think that's one of the reasons the movie starts off so well. As soon as you see his mug on the screen, people are at ease. They go, 'I know this guy. This is comfortable.'

Mike Ryan

He makes everybody better. On his line and on the team.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Anne Heche

You know, so many things get redone -- music gets remade, Shakespeare gets remade,

Herman Edwards

You can see he really studies the game. He doesn't just walk out there and play. He waits for his opportunity to make the play and when you think he's not going to make the play, that's when he gets you.

Jacques Chirac

The Franco-German relationship has something special to it, ... This Europe, if it is to work properly, must have a strong Franco-German axis. If we don't get along, the system gets blocked.

Brian Hill

These guys are playing unselfishly, they're sharing he ball, and if there's an open guy, he gets the ball.

Wayne Shelton

This is more playing time for other people before she gets back. The other players are saying she'll have to take her position back.

Allison Daly

All I thought about was we have to win no matter who gets the shot.

Grady Fuson

All he does is get people out. He might not look as impressive as some guys, but he gets the job done.

Jeff Murphy

Alecia does a great job blocking. She gets a lot of touches for us.

Cal Cochran

My goal is to see if I can make them better. Knowledge is power. What we have to offer is an opportunity to learn more about the game. An opportunity where you can grow as player.

Joseph Harcharik

My goal is to make that team, like every other Des Moines kid's dream.

Anja Paerson

My goal is to go there and have fun. I want to be Olympic champion.

Donna Davis

My goal is that if someone's going to annex, then annex for the right reason. Don't annex because you were misinformed or you were scared into annexation.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

My goal from the very start was to make the team as the Number 3,

Carlos Marin

I can tell you I am very happy because this was one of my goals in life. I have been here so long, and I wanted to one day do this.

Hillary Clinton

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

Eugen Herrigel

You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.

Fabio Capello

If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing....

Anne Sexton

I'll vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up....

Corita Kent

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Irvine Welsh

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

Imre Lakatos

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

J. R. R. Tolkien

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

Iwan Rheon

There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Allard Baird

We think he has the stuff to be a starter.

Jimmy Johnson

I just kind of used up my stuff there at the end.

Kathy Sierra

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Henry Cavill

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.