Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Roz Chast

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Woodrow Wilson

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Walter Scott

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Jose Rizal

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Albert Camus

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Stendhal

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Laura Lippman

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

Nelson Mandela

reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

John Walsh

This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people.

Anne Fadiman

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

Jacques Audiard

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.