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.

Jeremy Irons

It's a musical I've never seen, but I've loved the music for some time, ... This is a great, wonderful contrast from making movies.

David Hastings

I try to pick shows that are a contrast for the season. This was just something different.

Karl Hobbs

This game will be a contrast of styles. They want to be deliberate, run their offense and force us into a half-court game. We want to run.

Shyla Nelson

This contrast between this beautifully written, elegantly constructed music and this outrageous storyline is part of what drew me in.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.

Laura Bush

The contrast between what we've seen on the TV screens here, what's taken place in London and what's taking place here is incredibly vivid to me,

Erika Christensen

I guess if you didn't know me -- or even if you did know me -- the contrast is pretty real. It is something I am really proud of, ... Traffic

Sigmund Freud

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Tom Kontos

When you look at the contrast between compacts and full-size (SUVs), it has to be driven in part by gas prices, ... Why else would there be such polarity?

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Carmen Electra

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

Andrew Coates

The knock-on effects to the International Space Station are quite dramatic ... (long delays) could potentially be a show-stopper for the whole thing.

Gellert

You can't listen to the news or watch the dramatic images of the effects of Katrina and not want to lend a hand,

Ron Meyer

There's a shrinking number of dramatic stars who can guarantee an opening-weekend audience. They must be in the right vehicle at the right time.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Denis Potvin

I've been here a long time with my family, and I really enjoy it down here. I don't know if I could conceivably go into a lifestyle like that, because it would be a dramatic change.

Per Lindberg

This is nothing dramatic following Texas Instruments' upgrade last week.

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.

Daniel Gibson

We're playing with a lot of emotion. Everybody's feeding off each other right now. We feel like we're rolling.

Jerome Bettis

The range of our emotions there were all over the place.

Ryan Crawford

We lost our emotion and zip in the second and third quarters. It just wasn't there tonight.

Nikki Haley

I did read Indian scriptures when we could get the English versions, but the problem was I never took the time to learn the language. Really, what it comes down to is that I knew the emotion of faith; I knew what my parents were trying to teach me, but we always said 'No' when my mom was trying to teach us Punjabi.

William James

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

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.

Sitiveni Rabuka

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it.

Joe Nemechek

I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break.

Bob King

God's on the sign He made it happen, so He gets top billing.

Bill Foy

Going through that type of tournament at the regional really gets you prepared for the national tournament,

Tim Casey

He's a key player for us. He gives us that second perimeter threat. ... When he gets an open look, he's very confident. He wants to take the shot.

Calvin Brock

He's got big traps and a short neck, ... I've seen him take a good shot in sparring. I've seen him walk through some big punches by Jeremy Williams and Taurus Sykes. His stamina in the mid to late rounds is a big question. You also don't know how he's going to respond if he gets knocked down.

Ryan Shannon

He's a true professional at his power-center game. It doesn't matter where you put him, who you put him with, he always delivers the same thing, and he's a true presence in the locker room. He really gets the guys going.

Andy Coulombe

He's a tough kid. He gets after it and wrestles smart. He's always in good position, never tries to do things that don't need to be done at the time.

Todd Miller

He should have known something was wrong then. Nobody gets a pound of marijuana for $200.

John Green

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth...

Richard Bausch

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

Robert M. Pirsig

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

Zig Ziglar

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All propositions are of equal value.

Peter Thonis

This is a logical and predictable move by AT&T ( T ).

Christopher Hitchens

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Lion Feuchtwanger

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Joss Whedon

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

Otto von Bismarck

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Romano Prodi

It's the logical consequence of a wrong decision,

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Gary Brown

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Julian Assange

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,

Pico Iyer

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

Louis Freeh

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Eric Holder

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

Brian Green

It's here for when we need it. This is another tool in our toolbox.

Andrew Lochart

Even when you've got the tools in place, it's something you want to be vigilant about.

R. Lee Ermey

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Marshall McLuhan

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Marshall McLuhan

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.