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.

Michelle Huneven

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

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.

Chris Wooding

I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.

Matt Ryan

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

Dave Pirner

I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two.

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.

Michael Reagan

I highly commend Tim Todd for designing The Truth for Youth Bible. The spectacular comics deal with important issues that today's youth are faced with and it is making an eternal impact in our schools and around the country.

Roky Erickson

I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.

Ciaran Hinds

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.

Joss Whedon

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

Dom Capers

I think what they're doing is good for the game. They're drawing a lot of attention. They haven't really been challenged.

Wassily Kandinsky

Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements, its lawful forces-tensions, which can be discovered in given objects and of the logical structures of same-education toward clear observation and clear rendering of the contexts, whereby surface phenomena are an introductory step towards the three-dimensional.

Vince Vaughn

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

Granth Sahib

Remember in meditation the One who summons us; O Nanak, that day is drawing near! Meeting the Guru, we meet the Lord. He Himself unites us in His Union.

John Hitchcock

I had been working for Acme for six years. After a while, you realize you're just drawing a paycheck, and I felt like, 'If you're going to do something, you might as well really do it.' So, I opened my own store.

Allan Hale

If you're looking at the numbers of people that we can draw, the state lakes makes us a destination when it's drawing that many people, ... If you take that away, we could be lacking in the volume to be called that.

Norman Gillespie

If you look at the original drawings you can see how sketchy some of them were,

Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing

Vince Carter

I just wanted to push him out as far as I could and just stay down. He's good at that pump fake and drawing the foul late in the game. So I wanted to keep my hands up and make it a tough shot. If he makes it, he makes it.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Howard Dean

Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is unpatriotic and wrong.

Jill Koenitzer

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Eddy Cue

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Charles Thomas

He taught me a lot. It's a big loss for our office, obviously, but it's a great gain for the 7th district. I'm thrilled for him.

Brian McCutcheon

He had to gain a much better understanding of when to try one-on-one hockey and when he could try some of the moves he has.

Richard Swain

He is a great tactician who will gain the utmost respect from the players.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term, ... Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Ryan Lochte

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

Tyler Perry

Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

William S. Burroughs

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

Richard M. Nixon

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Richard Rohr

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Tracy Morgan

I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Bridgett Marx

Do your research first, and get to know what that particular sport will do for you.

Dennis Felton

The standards of our program are more important than winning any particular game.

Younis Khan

The team that performs better on a particular day will win.

Todd Rundgren

'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular kind of instrumentation that is much like a guitar quartet, and in some ways, it's an exceptional song on that record because so much of the writing on 'Something/Anything?' is piano-oriented.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Richard P. Feynman

The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe [Nature] does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Richard P. Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Dawkins

Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

Richard Whately

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Jacob Zuma

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Dennis Tomasevicz

The town of Shelby has just been unreal.

Dolly Parton

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Anne Boleyn

In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'