Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Laura Vandervoort

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

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.

Greg Garcia

We try to find big, funny moments that are going to make people laugh and talk about the next day, but if we can get people emotionally invested in these characters as well, (they're) going to want to come back week after week,

Jamie Richardson

Kim's stuffing recipe was sent out to the media in a holiday press release just as a fun marketing tool,

Mark Mooradian

Kickoffs are a lot of fun. I go out there and just nail it.

John Tuozzo

Kids playing sports should be about learning the game they're playing and having fun doing it.

Mats Wilander

James Blake's playing tennis for the right reasons. He's playing to have fun and to find out about himself, not to win the U.S. Open.

Rusty Robinett

Jake has been working hard and that's just a lot of hard work that paid off for him. Jake is very mature for his age, but he has a lot of fun out there.

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Willie Randolph

Keep it going, I love it. The guys were having fun tonight and obviously everyone was making a contribution. That's what you need to do the job on the road and hopefully we can get something special going.

Ben Curtis

Just seems like one good thing's led to another. Everything has kind of come together at the right time. It's just fun to go out and play again.

Henry Nutbrown

I think in the end, it's inevitable we'll be talking with all of our funding partners.

Tim Smith

If we come up with information that this is not the right time, there is time to halt the process.

Richard Flanagan

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

John Flanagan

Halt Halt," said Gilan stepping out into the open.

Janice Hahn

They're going to temporarily put a halt to removing those trees so we can have an opportunity to look at it and see if we can save the trees and the hawks,

Kofi Annan

The only way to halt an escalation of violence is for Israelis and Palestinians to work towards a viable negotiating process aimed at a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement,

Sylvester Stallone

There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.

Swami Vivekananda

They aimless halt, who halt for others.

Don Clark

she would like to see this come to a halt so her life can regain its normalcy.

Alex Pareene

Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Tim Funkhouser

He's done that before. That was a huge play.

Zell Miller

His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will never be another like him.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

John Gordon Sinclair

I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.

Bill Watkins

I think it's more of a panic on their part, ... It's not natural, what they're saying.

Simon Perry

It got to the point where there was panic over nothing. But don't panic, it's not going to smash anybody.

Philip Hoffman

I went (to rehab), I got sober when I was 22 years old. You get panicked ... and I got panicked for my life.

Walt Whitman

What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

Rose Tremain

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Ian Cooke

If you tend to think that sewage going into a brook is a big deal, then this is a big deal. We're not in a panic over it, but we'd like it fixed.

Liev Schreiber

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

Kristy Curry

They were panicked a little bit. (As a coach), you just stay calm, poised, teach and have some confidence.

Kirk Saarloos

It's a long season, you're going to go through spells like this where you're not scoring runs, but we didn't panic early, we're not going to panic now.

Rebecca West

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Robert C. Solomon

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Robert C. Solomon

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Robert C. Solomon

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Robert C. Solomon

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Michael Campbell

It is a long way to come for one week and go back again,

Doug MacIntyre

We may see another week or two of increases.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Sarah Silverman

If I don't do stand-up for two weeks, I get freaked out.

Riz Ahmed

I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.