Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

Don Mischer

It had been kind of ignored before that. Disney would do halftime with characters dancing on the field, that kind of stuff. It's become much more intense over the years.

Joe Quesada

I think those characters are going to be around for a very long time thanks to you guys.

Michelle Huneven

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Sarah Dessen

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

Brian Harrigan

Our lucky day didn't work out so well last time. They had their own lucky charm.

LaVerne Knox

Third time's the charm, and it's about time.

Mark Mears

We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.

Voltaire

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

Dav Pilkey

The show was really funny and charming, ... And I loved how it seemed like it was just thrown together at the last minute.

Marcus Martial

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

John Zogby

I've seen her neutralize people who don't like her, simply by being charming and nice, crossing into their space and being nonthreatening.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

Joe Carson

Previously the Fed had a reason to raise rates. There is no compelling reason to raise rates at the present time.

Kim Edwards

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

Frank Lautenberg

The compelling factor, I've got to tell you, in my decision was the searing reality that I would have to spend half of every day between now and the next election fund-raising,

Tim Cranton

This is compelling information that will hopefully get people's attention.

Greg Robinson

They made a couple of really compelling arguments (Tuesday) night,

Sheldon Adelson

I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don’t see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM.

Shane Carruth

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Pat Doyle

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

William James

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Will Cuppy

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Sarah Palin

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Richard Ford

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Tupac Shakur

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Neil MacGregor

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Rick Atkinson

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

Tim Vine

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Lance Armstrong

I tried to control the narrative.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Roy Williams

I've rarely watched film of T.O. or Jerry,

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Rebecca Stead

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Aisha Tyler

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

Marianne Williamson

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

Richard Whately

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Russell Hoban

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Russell Banks

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

William S. Burroughs

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Virginia Woolf

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...

Viola Spolin

General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.

Wong Kar-wai

People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality.

Woody Allen

The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.

William Whewell

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Vince Gill

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Sade Adu

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Roy Ayers

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Young Jeezy

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Brett Tomko

This is as sharp as I've been all year, ... made my slider better, my splitter better, made everything better.

Riley Wallace

It disappoints me that we're not as sharp as we should be at this stage. But it's a win.

Will Anderson

They wanted us to stop so they could do the cha-cha slide or something,

Naomi Judd

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Thomas Jefferson

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Mark Teixeira

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Abraham Nunez

You've got to do whatever you can to win. Whatever you have is whatever it takes.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Larry Coker

With Olsen, whatever he does, it's like, 'Wow,'

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.

Giuliana Rancic

We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.