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.

Ed Swanson

Knowing it was Senior Day, Nicolle was emotional in the locker room before the game, but after she hit some shots and got her rhythm, she got that swagger that had been missing for the last few games. When she hits shots from the perimeter like she did today, it makes us a better team.

Kevin Cooney

He could take over a game. Not many people could do the things he does. It's a huge loss, but he gave the team an emotional lift whenever he was up.

Rian Johnson

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Valerie Bertinelli

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

Sara Rue

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

Sandra Bernhard

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

Vincent Kartheiser

You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.

Warren Buffett

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

Warren Buffett

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

John Fletcher

Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

Bryant Dillon

He's got goals in life. Being that he had a hard upbringing, I think that's prepared him for life, to live better and to experience a lot more. He does have his head on straight.

Joe Gibbs

He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.

Paul Lambert

He's got SPL experience and provides us with more options in midfield.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Bryce Kaneshiro

I thought we were going to score one before the end of the game. We had a lot of opportunities on the long throw-ins. We just didn't put it in. I'm extremely proud of my guys.

Mark Bennett

There is huge potential for this kind of technology in Africa, ... It's new, but it's extremely appropriate because there are no copper-wire phone lines in much of Africa, and half the people there have never touched a phone - and never will. People are already contacting us about getting into the systems that are going up, but the question is the rate to do it so it remains sustainable.

Fran Maier

We take these things extremely seriously. We always have, we do now. That's all we can say considering that these things are under litigation.

Bob Ulrich

We are extremely pleased with our overall results for fiscal 2001, particularly the strength of our fourth quarter,

Willie Smith

I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.

Carl Jung

So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?

Tyler Hoechlin

My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about reminding the other person how important and special she is to you.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again—not after they’d been apart for so many months.

Rick Riordan

My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.

Wiz Khalifa

A single girlfriend can play an important role in success of your career but a bunch of girlfriends can seriously ruins your successful life.

Zach Galifianakis

There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

Zach Galifianakis

My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.

Zayn Malik

I am the most jealous boy in the world, when I'm with my girlfriend. I always kiss her so that the other guys know she's mine

Tom O'Neil

His shyness is hurting him. He is pulling out of public appearances lately and it's been widely noticed. He's been pulling back when he should be campaigning.

Rich Irr

It didn't matter if it was regulation or overtime. It was going to hurt.

Manu Ginobili

It didn't hurt me. But the league makes its own decisions.

Tom Renney

It hurt us from that point of view. We had our practice all ready to go as we always do, but specifically for Pittsburgh.

Conchita Martinez

It hurt too much, ... There was no way I could play on.

Cammi Granato

It hurts when you know something is so wrong and there is nothing you can really do about it,

Charles Bennett

It hurt me. I realized he was right. We shouldn't be out there fighting. That went too far. That's what really touched me.

Andy Reid

I thought about it, yes. There was a point where he was hurting after he took a hit. He tried to run and he took a hit. So I thought about it.

David Spencer

We've been waiting for that. Today is the first time he's had that kind of rhythm since he got hurt.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Sarah Palin

I don't like local, state or federal level of got mandating anything in our lives , in our families, and in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives.

Vince Young

My confidence level is a tremendous high.

William Vickrey

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

Samantha Barks

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

Wolfman Jack

My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Jonathan Scott

I had three things to do: being physical the whole game. Win the game. Put on the Hat.

Kendall Simmons

That's something I'm not worried about. You just have to try to outwork them; that's it. They want you to come at them, but you just have to be more physical than them and I know we'll be able to do that.

Steve Peck

Any time you play a rival, you're going to have a little more physical game.

Kelly Greenberg

They're a very physical team, especially on the inside, and I don't think of our forwards as very physical, so that will be a challenge. They're also a very hard-working team and they play very well at home. We're going to have to play hard, we're going to have to play smart and we're going to have to make some shots.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Adelaide Kane

Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have anything to play with and you don't have anything physically in the room. Whereas on set, you have direction, you have costumes, and you have other actors to work with. It's a completely different thing.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Arthur Johnson

We've got to push our way through. We need a new school.

Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

Grady Jackson

I'll be ready for Detroit. I just have to get the footwork down, get used to pushing and everything again.

John Niven

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

Alicia Keys

I push them (offensive lineman) out of the way to tackle someone,

Steve Raab

They want to have a competitive solution, but they don't want to push the transition now.

Mike Mihalus

They push themselves. You'll see one person out there alone, practicing.

Leigh Morris

This is going to push it up a little further.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.

William Finnegan

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

William Gilmore Simms

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Ray Anderson

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

Kevin Spacey

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

Peter Capaldi

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

Sean Penn

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Devon Sawa

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

Ben Whishaw

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Antonin Artaud

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

Catherine Deneuve

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Ai Weiwei

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Silas Weir Mitchell

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Zoe Saldana

I never really watched the TV series.

Jamie Blackley

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

Henry Rollins

I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."

Jussi Jokinen

It's been on TV too much. I didn't want to do that.

Mayim Bialik

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.

Kris Allen

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

Elia Kazan

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

Simon Baker

There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.