Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Brian Dolan

Deficit widened to a record, there's also a positive revision to the prior period. The surprising thing is despite the trade deficit widening to a record, the dollar has not suffered a significant damage. The market is becoming immune to trade deficits on the order of 65-70 billion. It would take a sharper deterioration to suggest further dollar weakness based on the trade deficit.

John Given

Defense has always been our forte. Even with our good teams, our program's based on defense. We can control our effort on defense.

Rob Enderle

Companies didn't build a lot of inventory. Everyone based their build numbers on crappy consumer-confidence numbers. For certain high-demand products, companies are going to run out.

Raul Garcia

Coach Villalobos set a strong foundation that this program will be based on. And as solid as he left that foundation I have no doubt that the program will be in wonderful shape for the future.

Mike Tice

Cold and sticky, like I always dreamed it would be. I'm just happy for the guys. I knew we were going to have to work hard, based on how new I am and all the new faces we have. I knew it was going to take some time. But I just didn't think it would take five games.

Jim Allchin

Developers building embedded devices now have an open, reliable platform from which they can create innovative new solutions and bring them to market faster than ever. These solutions based on Windows NT Embedded 4.0 will enable customers to streamline and automate processes through the use of a wide range of new intelligent devices.

Eric Gorrell

Despite little marketing effort to date, each episode generates thousands of online applications. Based on the quality of these leads, we are now moving forward quickly with plans to roll out our distribution network, which will include a robust Web site and lead-generation engine, a call center and home buyer counseling services.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

David Goldstein

People say I should change it, but it's become my brand, ... I'm stuck with it. I'm the horse's ass guy.

Catherine Rossi

People planned to drive less and expected to change their driving habits. They figure out ways to make vacations happen.

Dan Russell

People's schedules are very diverse and they also change a lot. For those who use these programs for their wellness and health they know that we are one of the networks where they can come by any day, any time and find something in the genre that can help them.

Simon Wolfson

People talk about consumer confidence, but that is a misleading phrase. There are a number of factors that mean people just have less money. Mortgage rates are at a historic high for many people. The fuel price is another major contributory factor. We don't see any particular reason why any of that will change for at least another six months or so. We reckon we can grow market share, but that will be through increasing selling space.

Douglas Duncan

People are trying to judge the degree of the (housing) slowdown and whether it is a slowdown, and if they are on the margins in terms of making a final decision, a small interest rate change one way or the other can have the effect of changing people's minds.

Stephen Simmons

People don't like change and they don't like seeing us at the top of the league,

P.K. Shaw

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Nancy Hall

People feel strongly. Some think it will change the character of the town, while others think it will be good for business. We're still very early in this though.

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?

Kim Fields

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

Laila Robins

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

Kathryn Harrison

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

Thayer David

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

Brooke Nevin

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

Jonathan Winters

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Sharlto Copley

To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that will give me longevity.

Sandra Cisneros

At the time I was writing it, it started as my own memoirs but transformed into a piece of fiction. All the emotions are mine, the setting is mine, the house is mine. But the characters are a composite of my students' stories.

David Baker

The meeting would be in order to make further progress, and it's contingent on Palestinians continuing to fight terror,

Judith Butler

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Gottfried Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Bill Lawrence

Zach finished his movie. I could have episodes ready already. That was just network spin.

Maggie Grace

You should have met me on the pilot episode - I was so sweet. Now I'm just one of the guys.

Brannon Braga

Each episode provides a puzzle piece to a larger mystery.

Jake Bugg

Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'

Patrick Clawson

There are lots of problems in Iraq, and this episode was done by some nasty actors who are not friendly to the United States.

Judith Jamison

It's a mood piece about love and relationship, like a slice- of life- pie at 2 a.m. with episodes that happen quickly.

William Toman

It's episodic. One episode takes place here in the States, another in Ecuador, another in Indonesia. Each writer took one region and wrote that section of the show.

Tasha Smith

I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.

Charles Wicks

We're not sure yet if this is a normal episode or not.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Cynthia Nixon

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Dolly Parton

I'm a show-off basically... always have been.

Crystal Gayle

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Ricky Martin

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

T. Harv Eker

Until you show you can handle what you’ve got, you won’t get any more!

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.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.