Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thomas

We find it disturbing that the networks in question seem to have no problem exploiting gay persons through mindless comedies or titillating dramas, but when it comes to a church's loving welcome of committed gay couples, that's where they draw the line.

James Gray

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

Tim Horan

We plan to make three feature-length movies for theatrical release this year, probably comedies because that is what works well for local production and we already have a stable of good comedy writers from our television sitcoms.

Alan Alda

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

John Davis

The big story coming out of this year was that comedies did really well,

Kevin Reilly

The strength of the ratings and performance and the quality of these two shows make this a very easy decision. We are confident that these comedies will only continue to increase in popularity.

Mariella Frostrup

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

Leslie Moonves

This is an idea whose time has come. It's a scheduler's dream to have successful and critically acclaimed dramas ... comedies ... and reality series. We are going to have quite a schedule.

Lynne Burroughs

This is one of the easier comedies to understand.

John Bolton

As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

Anders Lindall

It's a step in the right direction, but it's only a fraction of what's critically needed. We need to see a more sizable increase in front-line staff.

Ralph Neas

This is a critically important vote, and it will be something that all progressive organizations will remember forever.

Paul Catoe

This is a critically important step in the process.

Steve Scruggs

This position is critically important to the future of our community.

Michael Kostelnik

The space shuttle is critically dependent on what we intend to do with the international space station and those requirements are still being worked out.

David Ogden Stiers

I've only got about a 3-hour window for recording. After the two-and-a-half hour mark, you can't hear critically what you're doing anymore.

Russell Lewis

These elements are critically important in relation to feeding horses.

Ellen Stofan

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Nathan Fielder

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

Tuppence Middleton

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

John Eaton

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

Antonya Nelson

I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.

Marcia Gay Harden

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

James Nesbitt

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

Duniya Vijay

The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well.

Andre Agassi

I still put myself through the same dramas that I used to and always have,

Rob Lowe

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Charles Dickens

Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.

Charles Stuart Calverley

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

Charles Stanley

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

Charles Spurgeon

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

Alan Paton

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

Alan Moore

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

Alan Jackson

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Alan Beck

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!

Alan Cooper

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

Dave Strang

They are doing quite well in the conference. They've got three scorers, basically, from what I've seen on their stats.

John Taylor

They are showing they are quite intransigent and showing they are going to be very difficult.

Colin Firth

There was quite a lot of your rear end that didn't make it either.

Stephen Hess

There were big, big items, and that was really quite exceptional for one of these speeches.

Anne Fox

They probably will be here for quite some time, ... There's a possibility they could be absorbed into the community.

I. Stone

I try not to get quite so pushy,

Brett Buckles

It was quite the jump, being thrown into it. It's been a blast.

Thomas Breuer

It was quite surprising to me and my team to make this observation.

Ali Alatas

It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.

Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Alan Watts

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...

Alan Watts

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Alan Rosenberg

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

Alan Moore

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

Alan Moore

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.

Alan Moore

It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.

Alan Moore

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

David Hilbert

A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

David Douglas

Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Ben Stiller

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Honestly, it's very satisfying, and I'm very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been. It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying now.

Armstrong Williams

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

Armstrong Williams

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.