Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Steve Buscemi

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

Lorrie Moore

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Julie Kagawa

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

John Crowley

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

Clive Woodward

After last night's match, we are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is such a character,

Scott M. Gimple

The most interesting thing to me is that 'The Walking Dead' is a show that reinvents itself every eight episodes. It's an evolving landscape. There are characters that die. There are characters that stay on. There are characters that go away. I love that.

Jane Austen

speaks very truthfully. ... I loved the fact that it felt so honest. I respond to scripts regardless of where or when they're set; for me, it's about whether the characters ring true.

Kim Fields

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Sarah Mlynowski

I always work from an outline.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Gray Davis

Some polls have had us 20 points behind,

Maria Sharapova

It was tough. I couldn't put two points together. I was tired from my previous match, and now I need some time off.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

Craig Conroy

Those are turning points in the game. We had two of them (5-on-3 power plays). Not to be able to capitalize, you know, that's been our problem up to this point.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Chris Wielgus

She was phenomenal. The score at the end had Rutgers with more points than Dartmouth, but there's no way we were losers.

Gerard Houllier

Objectively, with 15 points to be distributed, it's won.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Paul Morris

Everything went really well so we didn't have to do a lot of laps. We spent the rest of the day sorting out the new (adjustable) seat we will be using at Sandown and Bathurst.

Chris Chaffer

There's only one Tory Jackson, and what he did tonight was what he always does. Tonight Tory jump-started us, but the rest of his teammates also responded to the challenge.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

Rick Riordan

Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn." "Yeah, it's a gift.

Willie Aames

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Mika

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

Jonah Lehrer

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

John Dryden

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

Tim Lappano

We're still going to be stubborn about that.

Kent Evans

It wouldn't surprise me if there are more in the future,

Vance Taylor

It wouldn't surprise me if one were Target.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Michael Boyd

This is not a surprise to anyone. We've had tests like this before that have failed.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Irv DeGraw

This is the big surprise of the day, but it's unclear why it's happening.

Brett Favre

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Clive Barker

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Confucius

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

Andy Samberg

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.