Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Taymor

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

Morgan Spurlock

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

Godfrey Reggio

Remember that the film is about the digital domain. From the point of view of the scenario, images are evil demons, if I can be so bold.

Douglas Trumbull

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Michael Ritchie

I'm going to miss the mix of the kids who are 21 and come up here and find themselves with people who are at the peak of their careers.

John Frankenheimer

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

John Frankenheimer

The first assistant director runs the set. The whole mood of the movie, the whole tenor of the set comes off that person, and it's just a critical choice.

Joel Coen

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

Michael Ritchie

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

Rich Lyons

This was a good ball game for us. I think the potential has always been there. We just came out and gave a team effort tonight. We attacked their pressure then came back down and played pretty solid defense.

Wendee Warg

I thought we played great in the first half. We moved the ball on offense and attacked the basket and played pretty good defense. We were playing with a lot of confidence.

Karl Rove

He (Gore) attacked Governor Bush as being unworthy of being president for having some of the same views that he now compliments his running mate for having. I guess it's risky if you are a Republican to have those views, but it's courageous if you are Joe Lieberman,

Geno Auriemma

In the second half, we really got inside them and really attacked and created a lot of those fouls.

Eddie Quick

In the second half, we attacked and got great contributions. At halftime, I told our guys we have to get them to go faster. You're taking a chance, but you can't sit back and let them play their offense.

Joe Lieberman

In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked but America's self-confidence.

Billy Donovan

I'm just happy for everybody. I'm very blessed and very thankful for the opportunity to coach these kids. I thought whoever attacked the other team's defense better was going to have the best chance of winning the game.

Pau Gasol

I knew they were not very fast off their feet and that they are very foul-prone - they put you on the line a lot. I knew if I tried to take them off the dribble and attacked early, it would open up for me and my teammates.

Pinsoom Tenzing

I'm disappointed, this is the weakest we played for maybe six months. I'm disappointed we missed so many goals. We didn't open the game up. When we did move the ball, we attacked down the flanks beautifully.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Jon Huntsman

Just the fact that they have taken a position on it will resonate with many both in state and out,

Randy Ferbey

Just the changes in the ice -- we weren't picking it up fast enough. It's not a major concern. In the worlds last year, we had to win six in a row. There's a good to both sides of this thing ... I'll tell you after what it is.

Darin Dollemore

Josh and Nathan both got better as the day went on.

Brian Turner

Joseph and I have both been missionaries. After that experience, you need to have something to do!

Kevin Stass

The fuel loss will diminish the total number of miles it is able to travel.

Michael Steele

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

Unknown

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives

Alan Greenspan

could prove destabilizing to our financial system as a whole and in the end could seriously diminish the availability of home mortgage funds.

Lamar Alexander

There's no reason to do this when you're going to diminish what's in the parks.

Sebastian Briozzo

Lower fiscal and external vulnerabilities diminishes the downside risk for these economies over the short term. A continuation of this recent performance is therefore expected in 2006.

James Shapiro

If the informant got too good a deal, it would diminish his credibility.

Pierce Brosnan

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Cheryl Max

That was in no way meant to diminish the honor received by the band. We have to explore the issue from all angles, especially an issue as important as our students going overseas.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

John Lennon

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

Troy Diels

A lot of groups come through middle school with high expectations. They'll have to maintain their skills and get better at the same time. People will be gunning for them each time out so they have to come to play. People remember middle school (success) so you have to keep getting better and I think they will.

Jim Sullivan

There were more groups that made records and didn't make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

M. J. Rose

MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

Kevin Johnson

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

Andrew Chesley

That's No. 1. It's probably impossible to overstate the importance of getting the Measure K renewal program.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Herbie Hancock

Tradition can be negative though, if the importance of having roots outweighs the importance of searching for what's valuable in new things being presented.

Harold Phillips

Everyone understands the importance of this park to the facility.

LL Cool

To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day,

Joseph Bruchac

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Maria Cantwell

We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Richelle Mead

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

John Pont

I really think that is a real strength of the team.

John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

James Allen

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Anthony Froude

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Henry Adams

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive.

James Russell Lowell

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Jeremy Corbyn

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.