Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Anderson

I was kind of under the impression that very little research was meaningful in medicine ? that their work was frivolous. Every time I was able to deny a project, I felt I had gained a victory that these animals didn't have to be used in research.

Martin Chalfie

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

Lanny Davis

Knowing those animals are locked up, not able to do any more harm that's one satisfaction. I do not look at them as humans. Humans don't do that.

Karen Miller

Knowing Tara and April, this is exactly what they do. They would never put down an animal unless they had to.

Brian Jacques

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is.

Amy Davis

Kids are just interested in animals. But it's much more than that. They have certain responsibilities they have to meet, and many want the challenge. It teaches real-life skills. Sports works for some people, something like this works for others.

Brian Hill

Just like the Medical Center, we had water in the Zoo. We lost one small animal that was spooked by the weather. All of the other animals came through during Tropical Storm Allison. During Alicia, I am told by some of the veteran zookeepers, that we lost two birds.

Tony Martin

I suspect that the animal may be in ill health.

Tom Williams

I think it's a horrible thing that somebody put this horse through and this family through. Anyone who would do this cruel of thing to an animal should be put in jail, that's my thought.

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.

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.

Ann Nocenti

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

Richard Masur

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

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.

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.

Tatiana Maslany

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

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.

Tanith Lee

There are the characters who die but who you follow after death, and they often lead much more interesting lives after they are dead! So the characters usually drive me along, but occasionally the plot has to come first. It can get sticky.

Ronda Rousey

I was just a little three-year-old kid, and I loved Hulk Hogan. And when you're a three-year-old kid, you don't list off the reasons. I was just drawn to him. He was always my favorite, even in the video games and everything like that. He was the one that I always remembered and liked the most.

Matthew Goode

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

Henry Selick

Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or in CG.

George Herbert Mead

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Tatiana Maslany

I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

Alan Reed

We take people on horse drawn rides through the corrals and through our processing plant to see how milk is bottled.

Michael Walker

I was just really drawn to the campus, and to the environment we have here,

Ken Jennings

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

Kelly Burke

He was especially fond of tales drawn from his Irish heritage.

Gary McDonald

Kids are more likely to do permanent damage. This is something he would do.

Mariella Frostrup

Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Sharon Brown

Kids weren't getting to the level they needed to be at to pass the state test.

Andy Schulz

Kids were making plays all over the place. They refused to lose. We refused to lose. Time just ran out. Fortunately, we were ahead.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Parry Aftab

Kids used to pass notes around in school. Now they're putting it onto pages with 42 million users.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.