Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Morris

He would nurse a beer through an evening of Irish revelry, affable and jovial, and carry his paralytically drunk companions home to bed without any disturbance to his life-long calm.

Malcolm White

He's such a sweet guy and such a great guy to be around. He's always been so affable and pleasant. He'd always introduce his friends in the audience at every show. He's a great showman. Who doesn't like going into a club and having the band recognize them?

Tim Armstrong

A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.

Robert Lefkowitz

My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project.

Anushka Sharma

My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right.

Andrew Sorensen

Jack Pratt has the character, the leadership skills and the qualities to inspire confidence and optimism.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

George Bodenheimer

Keith Jackson is a man of great character and a legendary broadcaster. For decades, his unmistakable style defined college football for millions of fans. While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and wish him the very best.

Sela Ward

I swore I'd never do another hour show... until I read the first page of this script and I just hooked into Lily's character so much and the writing.

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.

Anna Friel

I also like the fact that the character isn't a typical footballer's wife, she doesn't need the bling and being at the forefront of everything.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Jonathan Davis

He was a guy who really liked Sinatra, stuck at this alternative-rock radio station, ... So we had the character record his own versions of these (alternative) songs. That was the original inspiration for Cheese.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Angela Shelton

I thought this would be a cute little film about meeting people with your same name, ... I would shoot it during the summer and then start on my comedy.

Paul Brooks

I think that because it was comedy-horror instead of pure horror is where the problem lay. It's the first comedy-horror in a long time, and maybe the marketplace just isn't ready for comedy-horror yet. It's difficult to think of other explanations.

Patricia Heaton

It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love? Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone? Or is it about years of commitment and history together? Or is it both? How do you find it, and how do you know? It's a very complicated topic.

Kimberley Nixon

'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.

Sandra Bullock

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Jeff Kinney

I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write a film that's not in the 'Wimpy' universe, but I know it will be difficult to create something from scratch. But I love creating good comedy for kids, so I hope to have another successful venture in the future!

Roberto Benigni

The first part of the story is very funny and very full of gags ... then the second part is not a comedy (and) is exactly a real tragedy. This, to me, was wonderful, the balance.

Kelli Berglund

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.

Leslie Mann

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

John le Carre

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

Sam Buell

They're going to be confronted for the first time with lots of detailed questions that they didn't face before because the questioners didn't know all the facts yet.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

Michael Leunig

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

Oliver North

What I am saying to you, and you know what I'm talking about, what they are confronted with,

Daunte Culpepper

I look forward to meeting my accusers in a court of law, so they can be confronted with this lie. In the end, the truth will come out and I will be vindicated.

Stephen Kinzer

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

Scott Kaupin

Manchester would be hiring a very qualified town manager for their town. I think Manchester would be a perfect position for him. It's a similar town the size of Enfield; probably many of the same issues that he would be confronted with day to day.

Charles Steger

I do want to find out what actually happened. Each person, when confronted with the situation, did what they thought was right. ... Now, are there things that we need to put in place to make the process of handling such an instance more effective in the future?

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Samir Haj

Karen has been our go-to person on the junior varsity team. We're going to incorporate more people into the scheme. We're going to start playing 18 people instead of just 13 or 14.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bob Johnson

Hopefully, we can have one large one instead of several smaller ones.

Eric Snow

They are pushing the tempo more. Whenever you do that, you get more possessions. Under Larry Brown, they were more of an opportunistic fast-break team. Now, they are trying to run more.

Michael Storm

Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show.

Brendan Barnicle

Larry will go out of there in a pine box.

Ron Davis

Larry has a sister in Florida, and he took a week off in September to visit her.

Charlene Tilton

Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.

Antonio Davis

Larry and Isiah, they need to get on the same page. Is the team going younger or older? What are they doing? Where's the team going?

Theo Epstein

Larry and I like each other. As with any other working relationship there are complexities, there are ups and downs.

Robert Rubin

Larry and I have been true partners through this whole period, and it's been a wonderful, wonderful partnership,

Theo Epstein

My relationship with Larry is one that spanned about 14 years; we've had a very successful working relationship,

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Rufus Wainwright

I am ridiculously high-maintenance.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Randy Benoit

Really, that is the main thing that I would look for.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Steve McDonald

Our main strategy is to secure America's borders.

Tanya Lysacek

Our main role is to be supportive caregivers and parents.

Richard Goodfellow

Our main priority is to get our staff working, and that is what we are seeking to do.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Glenn Geffner

There are so many variables. These numbers mean nothing when they're announced.

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Rick Riordan

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

John A. Logan

The idea is just to remind taxpayers that they have that obligation.

Mary Gordon

It's like walking into a cathedral.. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and important thing.

Paul Theroux

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Scott Weiss

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Rhys Ifans

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

Craig Faire

Sometimes I have to remind myself that she is just a sophomore.

Chris Shelton

Sometimes I had to remind him I was just his boy, his son, and not some big-leaguer, not anything special.

Paul Winans

You're going to need to take it out when you remodel, to remind yourself why you (chose to) remodel.

Dustin Hermanson

The first series we didn't have a whole lot of opportunities.

Bernie Williams

The World Series and the postseason is a thing you've got to go with the flow. In the World Series, you let it all out.

Alex Barron

They've kind of turned this series into what the IRL didn't want to happen,

Douglas Adams

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

Aileen Anderson

This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.

Christy Romano

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Brandon McArthur

The series isn't over. Tomorrow is another day.