Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Adams

Hard data is behind boundary changes. It is not an arbitrary decision at all.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

James Salter

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

Kate Chopin

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

Brian Billick

As a coach, there are a lot of things, personally, I may or may not like or would not personally do - not necessarily may be my style, ... But you have to be very careful about inhibiting the passion for this game in an arbitrary way. I've got a very diverse group of players economically, socially, racially, geographically, with a number of different upbringings.

Joseph Campbell

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

Lynne Truss

The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Frank Darabont

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Dana Brunetti

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

James Tobin

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Todd Phillips

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Lars Trier

I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Pete Carroll

He's going to have an operation. It's going to be a lengthy recovery.

Robert Rottersman

What I'm going to try and do here is take a rather lengthy report and summarize it.

William Godwin

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

John Burns

I have talked to them at length about it in my office.

Kate Atkinson

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

Moe Ammar

It's a very, very lengthy process. We have a little over 500 members today, but out of the 500, we only pick four.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Jacques Chiron

It was the perfect length and everything... Perfect color.

Dr. Seuss

Shorth is better than length.