Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Hernandez

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

Kirk Walters

We can't let them dictate the tempo. Their offense doesn't take any chances. They are very patient, and they run their stuff extremely well.

Johnny Damon

We had opportunities; we just couldn't capitalize. That's the most aggravating thing about this game. When you're not hitting and scoring runs, it dictates how well your season goes.

Jose Simon

We can at least try to dictate the agenda.

Scott Bardall

We have a team that needs to dictate tempo. We?re not big, we?re not quick, we?re not going to overpower you with talent. What we have to do is do two or three fundamental things well.

Mitt Romney

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

Zakk Wylde

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

Thurston Moore

We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves.

Marshall Faulk

Without a doubt. It's just weird when you hear the ones called out and I still take that step to go because it's always been like that for me. Now I have to hear formations and personnel that dictate when I'm in the game. But it's fine. It's a process.

Patrick Chappatte

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

Kabir Bedi

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

Florence Aubenas

I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.

Toni Morrison

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

David Puttnam

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

Al Pacino

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

David Twohy

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

David Duchovny

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

Audrey Tautou

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Denzel Washington

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.