Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Guggenheim

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

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.

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.

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

Martin Freeman

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

Julie Kagawa

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human.

Chris Crutcher

I realized that I wanted to be a writer and I had characters and topics all around me to write about,

Anthony Marra

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Sadaharu Oh

We heard that TV ratings for our games surpassed 30 percent and 40 percent in Japan and we also got warm fan support in the United States. I feel very happy that we responded to such enthusiastic support with this title.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Jarvis Green

Every time he made a play you heard the fans yelling and that pumped us up, ... He is the same old guy.

Brooke Nevin

I'm a fan of the old 'Creature Features' like 'Critters,' and 'Gremlins' and 'Tremors.' 'Jaws' is classic. It's funny that I still like those films because I remember my mom would tease me about getting a pet Critter to keep under my bed.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Fay Weldon

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Farley Mowat

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

George R. R. Martin

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

Frederick Buechner

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Fernando Pessoa

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.