Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

Amber Heard

I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.

Andrew Weil

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

Andres Iniesta

There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect,

Andrei Platonov

My body gets weak without truth.

Chuck Palahniuk

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Allyson Felix

I don't have a sprinter's body.

Anne Sexton

Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

Anne Rice

My body is no schoolboy.

Daniel Keyes

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

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 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.

Ann Brashares

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.

Dore Gold

We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

Newt Gingrich

All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves.

Arlen Sanders

The idea is to create jobs and create opportunities.

Benj Steinman

Its wholesalers are clamoring for high-margin, growth brands. Anheuser has promised to deliver them, but they can't just create them.

Manny DeMutis

It's where artisans will come together and create one-of-a-kind things. If you want one-of-a-kind things you've got to come to Phoenixville.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

George H. W. Bush

The list is wide open, which should create some good speculation here in Washington,

Michael Gerber

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sheryl Swoopes

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

Author unknown

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

O. Singh

Through their stubborn mindedness, and by wearing their disguises, they are deluded, they suffer in pain from the love of duality.

Rich Beem

You have to play by feel and I love that,

Sylvia Earle

You have to love it before you are moved to save it.

Cynde Frankel

The one thing they share is a love of animals.

Daniel Barenboim

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Nate Longshore

We all love Steve. It was sweet watching him do his thing.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Neil Gaiman

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Nora Ephron

... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

Nora Ephron

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

Nasser Hussain

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

Mason Cooley

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!