Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as "industrial action", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as "sleeping together

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as ""industrial action"", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as ""sleeping together

George Pierce Baker

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Stephen Hunter

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Kenneth Koch

Here I was in my 20s, and life seemed to me so exciting and full of girls and gardens and steamships and drinks and tennis games and countries and cathedrals... I mean, it seemed absurd to be writing these drab, depressed little poems. I knew there were things like death and poverty and injustice, but they weren't everything.

Tom O'Neill

Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.

Guy Quaden

It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth.

Salman Rushdie

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Wendell Berry

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Sen. Sakamoto

It can't go back to business as usual.

Steve Tihanyi

It can create a more personal relationship (between GM and some celebrities), and at the end of the day, the business of entertainment is a lot about who you have a relationship with.

Allan Katz

It can cost 10 times more for a retailer to get a new customer than to get more business from existing customers.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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.

Laura Vandervoort

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

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.

Tim LaHaye

We've fallen in love with the characters and the people and we're dreaming about what's going to happen to them. It's really a fun experience.

Micky Adams

Kevin has been nursing a groin strain so that is why he has not featured in the last two games, but he is ready to come back into the squad for Preston.

Jeff Pulver

We are going to offer enterprises an opportunity for real instant collaboration and features that they can't get from the regular phone network.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

Gia Coppola

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Devon Bostick

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

George Dagnino

He has an outstanding work ethic. He was a second-team all-league last year and was our leading tackler. He is also going to be one of our featured backs.

David Bailiff

He needs to be the committee. Heck, he's big enough to be the committee. I do like the way he is approaching the season. He wants to be the feature back.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.

M. Thompson

Half the time, we don't even notice that they're there.

Leon Cooperman

Half the stocks I picked are up and half of them are down.

Jeffrey Levi

Half of America's workers have no sick leave.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

George Herbert Mead

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Janet Reno

It is important that we identify who is responsible for them having guns, what the parents knew or should have known, and take appropriate steps, ... Meet the Press.

Ed Gillespie

If you look at the party identification and how voters identify themselves, the parties are just about at parity,

John Hannah

It's something that has been going on for a number of years. As our investigation progresses, we will be able to identify individuals involved.

Joe Piscopo

It's vital to getting out the vote because the kids identify with it so much.

Paul Register

As much as you want to identify people, there has been a lot (more) time spent ruling out people. That is part of it.

R. Robinson

They said we needed to identify him so we did. We said this is Christopher Robinson.

Marcia Townsend

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

David Fincher

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Hiroaki Takai

The drop-off in Treasuries can't be ignored. That is contributing to weaker sentiment in Japanese bonds.

Peter Bjarkman

They'll be out there tomorrow. They have a killer instinct. They know how to play in these tournaments. When it comes down to one game, they're the toughest team in the world to beat. It doesn't mean they're going to win. The Japanese team's the same way. But they play a similar style of baseball. It ought to be a really interesting game.

Paresh Upadhyaya

The Japanese would like to see a weaker yen. They thought it strengthened too much unilaterally.

Hu Jintao

something the Japanese side should seriously reflect on.

John Rossi

Sometimes several (of us) were shooting the same Japanese fighter.Who knows which one took it down, and we just shared the result,

Atsuko Abe

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Steven Norwitz

We think long-term the Japanese market is going to be just fine.

John Glover

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

Charlize Theron

I was a little mad at myself because I feel very fortunate,

Deshea Townsend

He is a mad man on the field.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Woody Allen

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

Robin Wright

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Roger Goodell

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

Samuel Johnson

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Roy Wright

I think we?re getting to a point of equilibrium. I think we?re getting back to the norm.

Tania Zaetta

I think at any point you go it's disappointing because everyone would like to make it all the way through,

LeBron James

It got to a point where it was kind of mental. I've got to regroup.

Rick DiPietro

I think we're just trying to keep it simple. At this point of the season, we have to just trust our system and go out and play.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

Rick Ford

A lot of it is related to safety.

Carl Edwards

It's a little different. There was a time not too long ago when I just wished I had something to do related to racing. Now there's so much to do.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Christine Johnson

Everything about (the) swing is related to (the) alignment.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Will Gluck

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Ryan Phillippe

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Zach Braff

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

William H. Macy

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

Ewan McGregor

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

Kirsten Dunst

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Kenneth Williams

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.

Paul Feig

Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"

Marguerite Moreau

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

John Laird

I just think I was sent up here to vote,

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.