Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Peterson

Don was a comic actor. He wasn't a wisecracking, loud sort of person always telling jokes - nor is Andy.

Jason Wiles

I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.

Miriam Toews

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Seth

Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums. I wouldn't have predicted it.

Gale Anne Hurd

I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

Matt Ryan

I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.

Chelsea Peretti

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

Jon Huertas

I've always wanted to come to Comic Con.

Steve Hofstetter

I try to mix it up. Who wants to see a comic who just goes on with one subject, such as politics, for an hour? I go in a number of different directions. When I perform, there is no subject that is taboo.

John Ashcroft

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

Brad Pitt

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

Mark Tuohey

We're going through the facts with the government. I don't think there's a crime here. Nothing's decided.

Doris Lessing

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Michael Connelly

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

Dawn Barkman

Obviously, that person is a Good Samaritan, and they may know where the crime scene is.

Janet Reno

Money laundering is a very sophisticated crime and we must be equally sophisticated, ... an essential front in the war on narcotics.

Ann Widdecombe

As far as I'm concerned, William has been an excellent leader. He's a staying leader.

Karen Peterson

People think prices are going to go down and the statistics keep telling us they're not. They need to buy. We have an excellent inventory, excellent interest rates. What are they waiting for?

Brian Leonard

People that really know the game know we have an excellent team.

Michael DeBakey

After reviewing all facts, I am pleased to say that the operation is needed, that it shall provide excellent results,

Diane Feinstein

strength, experience, leadership and judgment to be an excellent president.

Travis Paquet

It was an excellent game. It was 8-8 at the end of the first and 18-14 at the half.

Scott Simons

the road to excellent service is paved with gold.

Larry Coker

The protection was excellent and I saw some good things. Things are starting to come around the way we want to see them.

Dick Vermeil

Todd had an excellent practice, ... He's a good football player. He has never been given the opportunity to demonstrate what he could do.

Dave Bloom

The 'Wizard of Oz' is her favorite movie, and this past December, she was a part of the lullaby league in a production of the 'Wizard of Oz' in Flatwoods.

Kristin Gore

'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.

Ted Ligety

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Pat Coyle

There's not a clear-cut favorite this year. Everyone can win it.

Madison Pettis

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

Debbie Garvin

What are the things I want to do for my family, myself and my favorite charity.

Caroline Leland

My favorite part was meeting the author. She is one of my favorite authors, and I liked the book, so to meet the person who wrote it was great.

Karla Comfort

My favorite part is the scene from heaven.

Steven Whitney

My favorite of all the sports is football. I wasn't the starter as quarterback, but I ran the other team's offense in practice and it was nice to have all that responsibility on my shoulders. I like being the main guy.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Lori Petty

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

R. L. Stine

Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

Brian Gionta

You grew up watching Team USA and you always wanted to be out there.

Jamie Dixon

What can you say to these guys? We grew a lot as the year went on, and youth is not an excuse. All that matters right now is how we respond to it.

e. e. cummings

...and down they forgot as up they grew.

Liam Hemsworth

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

Chuck Norris

Well, I grew up as a democrat.

Jim Parrack

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Brandon Sanderson

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Bella Thorne

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

Daniel Handler

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.