Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Joe Quesada

I think those characters are going to be around for a very long time thanks to you guys.

Craig Fairbrass

I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie, because it's rooted in reality. The characters are more real; they're not these superhuman people who can fly and do things.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

Paul Vasconi

I have to admit, I wasn't encouraged at first.

Robert Towne

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

Joe Morford

The underlying trends look positive, and I'm encouraged by stability in the margin and strength in loan growth.

Princeton Lyman

You've got the general problem of poverty and lack of government capacity. In Africa, everyone is encouraged to privatize, but there is a very important role of the state, strengthening oversight and regulatory mechanisms as you open up the economy. We've gone far in one way, but not the other.

Mike Riley

It's been a long time since he's competed, but I'm very encouraged by it. Marcel had a good feel for it from the minute he walked in here, and he still has it.

Rachel Friedman

Where has the peace movement gone? Here it is. You see that people are standing up and they want to make their voices heard and get encouraged by us and join us.

Martha Stewart

They have a lot of time to think and plan for the future, and they should be encouraged to,

Paul Singer

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans.

Donna Brazile

Hey, hey, ho, ho, Gary Condit must go.

Ron Darling

Oh, the pressure, Matt. You have to replace Gary Cohen on play-by-play.

Jon Seda

For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.'

Jim Brinkerhoff

After we won our morning match (Saturday), Gary Waite said to me, 'I'm going to take my girls skiing.' I told him we had another match at 5 p.m. and not to wear himself out.

Dee Anderson

Gary is one lucky guy to have Amy.

Michael Ostlund

Gary is going to be a really good story one day. He already kind of is, but the sky is the limit for him.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Carl Dodd

Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know that a lot of things she heard aren't true, and let her be the judge.

Charles Smith

He said he was worried about his sister. He hadn't heard from her since the Sunday before the storm.

The Beatles

To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.

Michael Judge

I have heard other leaders in the justice system say that they will be retired before this is over,

David Parry

I have heard of no other schools turning down instant replay other than USC,

Joe Gibbs

I don't know about that, ... I've never heard that over a headset, I'll put it that way.

Christopher Shays

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

Chris Samuels

It has to be instincts because he's been around a long time.

Courteney Cox

In this movie, I feel like I didn't notice Monica in it at all, ... Your instincts would probably be to think about Monica, but I have to make sure you don't.

Jamon Gordon

We thought we were going to pull it out. That?s how the season has been this year.

O.J. Mayo

I think we pulled together as a team.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Shatha Atiya

He has a lot of confidence, but I never thought he would be able to pull this together.

Sheray Thomas

I never thought that (this would happen). I thought we'd be on top of the conference, just like every one predicted, but that's the way it turns out sometimes and we've just got to pull through it.

Doug Thomas

In this arena, we're doing phenomenal. We're going on the road now, and we've got to be able to pull off some road wins.

Shay Espinoza

I just pulled the stroller and pushed her up on the curb.

Jim Shaw

I pulled myself out. The timing was too tight.

Robbie Reiser

You've got to come in, Matt, they are going to pull our scorecard!

Jim Glassman

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Sandra Cisneros

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

David McFarren

It's upsetting for me. I can't speak for everyone else, but I know it's upsetting for me.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Granth Sahib

The Vedas speak and expound on the Lord, but they do not know His limits.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Wayne Dyer

St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

W. C. Fields

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

William Ralph Inge

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Samuel Johnson

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Zoe Saldana

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

Dave Reed

I'm very angry. This is something we had trust in.

Buck Showalter

I just want someone who I can trust.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Kirsten Gillibrand

While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

Lisa Kleypas

I’ll tell you what I’m fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It’s all come down to the hope of being with you..

Otto von Bismarck

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Eric Shinseki

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

Craig Ferguson

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

Aristotle

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

David Letterman

Today is Veterans Day. Thank you to all our men and women who have served the United States armed forces. In honor of Veterans Day we are marching out a few jokes that have already served.

Dan Lipinski

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.