Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

Walt Jocketty

We signed him with that purpose in mind, based on his past career. It provides more depth to our rotation, more depth to our pitching staff, and that has been the priority of our off-season plan.

Harvey Pekar

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.

Shek Borkowski

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Alix Smith

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

Michael Woods

What I felt from George is a sense of confidence - he will know the numbers well, talk to people in laymen's terms about those numbers and win people over based on those numbers,

Liane Moriarty

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Mark Morris

It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.

John Corey Whaley

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

Mini Grey

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

Chelsea Cain

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Mark Haddon

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

Chris Murray

I'm reading six, seven, eight books at a time.

A.J. Chilson

If life is short, then how come most books reflect the opposite approach?

Matt Ryan

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

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Sonia Sotomayor

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Warren Littlefield

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Jack Gould

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Kevin Beary

He's not watching television, 'cause we've done some things so he can't watch television.

Geena Davis

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

Gary Cole

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

Gary Cole

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Fred W. Friendly

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Eddie Cahill

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Helen McCrory

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.