Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Jason Shirey

It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.

Scott Adams

You should always stay in character, ... Don't go up to your friends and say, 'What's up.'

Brandon Lee

You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.

Brandon Routh

I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.

Brandon Sanderson

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

Azim Premji

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

Ayn Rand

Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

Tim Vine

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Lance Armstrong

I tried to control the narrative.

Guy Maddin

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

Jeff Greenfield

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?

Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Gene Vincent

It was the sound that got to me,

Michelle Martin

You really feel like you are a part of 'The Sound of Music' when you are here.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Andy Summers

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Aneurin Bevan

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Simon Pegg

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.