Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Robert Toombs

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Tove Jansson

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Robin Morgan

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Bob Taylor

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.

Narciso Rodriguez

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Rick Vanhoy

Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Richard P. Feynman

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Richelle Mead

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

Richelle Mead

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Russell Brand

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

Rose McIver

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

Troye Sivan

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

William Gibson

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

William Faulkner

It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

Vincent Van Gogh

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.