Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Grafton

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

Jose Contreras

It was a little bit of a motivation, but I never let it get to me, ... I knew if I work hard, good things will happen.

Brian Hill

It was a little bit of a mismatch. We had smaller guys and we couldn't keep them off the glass.

Terry Ryan

It was a little bit of a humbling year. We got what we deserved. We didn't play well as a team.

Vesa Toskala

It was a little bit of a harder game because I didn't feel the puck very much. I had a couple good saves at key times.

Denny Parks

It was a little bit of a dagger. But, it could have gone the other way and not counted. It was right at the buzzer. If they wouldn't have counted it I wouldn't have been disappointed.

Gene McAteer

It was a little bit of a chess match.

Howard Waldron

It was a little bit more than we were anticipating, obviously.

Tom Vilsack

It was a little bit more frightening than the earthquake I was in, ... You could see the faces of people screaming at you.

Giorgio Rocca

It was a little bit luck and a little bit experience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Anil Kapoor

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Alla Nazimova

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Alison Lohman

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alison Elliott

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

Alison Pill

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Ann Brashares

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Ann Brashares

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Lord Byron

I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Alva Myrdal

Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.

Anne Roiphe

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

Anne Sexton

we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

Danny Kaye

I am a wife-made man.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

Confucius

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Ambrose Bierce

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Dr. John

In the network's mind there are no limits.

Dorothy L. Sayers

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

Claude Bernard

In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.

Dalai Lama

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

Dalai Lama

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

Dalai Lama

As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill.

Dalai Lama

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.