Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Luen Yang

At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.

Beezer Molten

It's just good for our business to be aspiring to this.

Laura Garrison

A lot of comedians out there are aspiring actors, but Dave Attell is a comedian who loves doing comedy and loves to tour. It's great seeing people who love what they do.

Jay Groth

They see the skills he has and what he's accomplished and are aspiring to do the same.

Chris Rolfe

It's a place I grew up watching games at and aspiring to play at so I think when I come here I got an extra little boost. My family's here. I don't know if that has anything to do with it but I think I am just fortunate to get the chances. It is just a great feeling to come to play here. It was a great effort by Chad (Barrett) and he deserves a lot of credit on my goal.

D. J. MacHale

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

Frank Shields

There are more film schools here than any other city, pumping out more aspiring filmmakers, and there is nowhere to show their work.

Tina Brown

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

Ken McKenna

We set high standards. In training every day we are on at the players and we keep working at things and giving them targets. But they are all aspiring to do better so it is just a matter of keeping them hungry.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent. In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent, ... In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Maria Bamford

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Norm MacDonald

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

Jon Stewart

As I was watching Dave talking about Johnny Carson, the way he feels about Carson is the way we, the comedians of our generation, feel about him,

Carly Craig

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

Tracy Morgan

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

Mike Birbiglia

When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.

Artie Lange

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Ben Stiller

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

Ben Stiller

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Carol Leifer

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

Mark Billingham

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Aisha Tyler

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Doug Herzog

We've tried to get some real definitive response out of Dave and have yet to.

Rich Glas

What's special is the great tradition in our program. To be in the same fraternity as Dave Gunther - and surpass him - is simply great.

JoLaine Jones

What's perfect about our relationship is that I've known Dave for two years now, and I've never once been disappointed or felt like he let me down or did something I disapproved of.

Rick Nash

They didn't throw me on one of the top lines, but they didn't keep me out as a healthy scratch, either. I think Dave King and Doug were using me well, and I think it was good development for me. I couldn't think of a better team to come to for a young guy than Columbus. You aren't just going to jump in and be a star player at 18. It's tough to be a star in the NHL. I just fit in and played my role on the third line, and just kind of hit and chipped in with a goal here or there when I could.

Mike McKee

As difficult as it is to find good coaches, we had Dave in the building. We had the personnel we wanted right here.

Jack Johnson

(Emmert) is a guy that is similar to Dave in a lot of ways. He's a smart, heady player. He's probably a step quicker than Dave and taller, but they are just two great leaders that rarely make a mistake.

Thelma Ritter

Between the late late show at night and Dave Garroway in the morning, why, it seems like there ain't much time.

Doug Brown

While this was not the film Dave was going to make...we'd talked about if for so long, that it was unfinished business. But it really tells what it's like. You're seeing a film from the astronaut's point of view.

Randy Monroe

Diamond Dave set the pace. I talked to Sammy (Hagar), and we're interested in doing some Sammy tunes ... but we haven't really experimented with them live.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Irish Proverb

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Joe Biden

This place just loves contrition, ... We all make mistakes.

Teri Hatcher

I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.

Eli Manning

I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.

English Proverb

Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked

RueNell Rush

There's not a day he doesn't tell me 10 times a day that he loves me. That's so special.

Joe Kraus

The town loves us. It's sad that we have to sever that union.

Zara Phillips

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

James M. Barrie

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

J. J. Johnson

We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.

Chris Shipley

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Todd Eberhard

It's a continuation of the story we've been seeing for months.

James Kelly

Once we start re-entering the atmosphere, you start seeing the plasma go by the windows,

Pete Hughes

Seeing him get the victory at 103 made me want it just as much.