Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

Andrea Anders

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

Andre Leon Talley

I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Davies

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

Andrew Davies

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

Andrew Davies

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

Andrew Davies

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

Andrew Davies

From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

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.

Anton Yelchin

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

Brock Yates

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

Brittany Murphy

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Steve Martinson

We've seen this team come back before. There's a lot of character there. They work hard, and they're going to be a tough opponent. I'm just looking at what we can do better on Sunday night.

Aristotle

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Aristotle

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Aristotle

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Michael Ende

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

Michael Azerrad

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Ray Bradbury

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Ray Bradbury

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Shane Carruth

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

Sean Bean

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.