Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

Historically, it's not like GM has always been a great company. It's had it's cyclical down periods. But you need to look at the import of GM, not as much a stock but as a barometer of the economy.

Will Rogers

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Chuck D.

The Dow is more a barometer of the economy and not so much the stock market. The photography sector isn't all that crucial to the economy.

Matt Bennett

They serve as a barometer to let us know what issues are out there.

John Mahr

It's a real good marriage between these two teams to be able to go head-to-head the first race of the year. It's a barometer for us to find out where we're at, and we're a little bit better than what we thought we would be. I'm ecstatic. To me it's a win.

Tim Wakefield

There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I'm going to pitch.

Art Russell

The software license revenue is widely viewed as a healthy barometer of their business. I think most of us were looking for growth in the 12- to 15-percent range, and we got 9 percent.

Jeff Hirsch

I've always enjoyed it as a football fan. But as a market analyst, I always turn to our January barometer .

Dick LeBeau

The statistics will tell you that: They scored more points. That's usually a pretty good barometer for the effect that the rule changes had on the game for that year. The numbers, in this case, don't lie.

Cheech Marin

I always cared about him and he always cared about me. We actually tried to get together a couple other times, but the timing wasn't right then.

Maurice Smith

He cared about us. I look around the house now at all the things he was planning, and it's just sad, man.

George Packer

I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.

Carolyn Brown

We talked about the things she cared about in terms of Barton College and the good memories of times with her husband. She and her husband enjoyed traveling, so we are talking about creating an endowment so a student could travel during the school's J-term.

Tom Foley

He was just a great member who cared passionately about so many things.

Anthony Swofford

He was quoting me, to me, and he could name a scene and a page number. He convinced me that he knew the story and that he cared for the story and that he cared for me and the other men who had served with me,

Scott Graham

He was really loved by the community. This is one way that our community has reached out to maintain his legacy. We were pleased to see many individuals as well as organizations honor a man that our community cared so much about.

Wendell Perkins

In the late 1990s and early 2000 nobody cared how high prices were and how high valuations got. Now, nobody cares how low they go.

Bill Donohue

The last thing I cared about was myself or my health and cigarettes were something to comfort me at the time.

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.

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.

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.

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

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.

Don Mischer

It had been kind of ignored before that. Disney would do halftime with characters dancing on the field, that kind of stuff. It's become much more intense over the years.

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Sam Simon

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Trevor Noah

I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.

Johnny Grant

his vigor and passion for Hollywood that's just so infectious and so important.

Scott Caan

Hollywood is sort of a small, little town, and doing things like that - like writing a play or selling a script - those are the little things people see.

Nikki Sixx

We are from Hollywood, you know that's where we started.

Alex Jones

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

Richard O'Brien

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Mike Marsh

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Judi Shekoni

I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan.

Vincent Cassel

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Hugh Dillon

I'm working consistently, and they're using my music in the movies,