Famous Quotes & Sayings

David S. Goyer

I will say that adapting a character like Da Vinci really wasn't that dissimilar from doing Batman or Superman. Because all three of these guys are really iconic figures, and yes, Da Vinci was historical, but there's clearly been a lot of mythmaking about him, and a lot of things have been attributed to him that may or may not have happened.

Nayvadius Cash

The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.

Walter Baumy

We're using a variety of materials, adapting the engineering to what we can find.

Robert Kiyosaki

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

Bill Callahan

We put in a whole new system with much different terminology last year. Sometimes it was hard to communicate this system to the players, but they're adapting to it now.

Ben Johnson

We are adapting and modifying what we know about integrated electronic systems in the automotive industry, in order to advance the LAV for the military. We are introducing leading-edge technology into a rigorous military environment, a world of highly advanced weapons systems with the need for integration and global communications.

Yara Shahidi

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

Wang Xun

On the other hand, old people who have lived most of their lives are set in their habits and therefore have far more difficulty adapting themselves to a new marriage than young people.

Christina Sweden

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity

Thomas Hardy

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Jim Margolin

We know that some of these fugitives might come to New York to blend into the crowd or hide in plain sight.

Padgett Powell

Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

Larry Wayman

We have a good mix of seniors, juniors and sophomores. Blending them together was the key, but early on, we made a lot of mental and physical mistakes.

Pauline Neville-Jones

It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

William Morris

Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow, And seek for men's love in the short days of life.

Jerry Jones

We gave up experience to have the opportunity to not only have good information now but build for the future. We have a good blend of veteran guys with guys that have not been doing it as long.

Rudy Provoost

We are blending movie and bonus material such that you won't see a difference anymore.

Igor Jablokov

We're blending speech recognition with Web browsers, so you can talk into the Web browser and get information back.

Wyclef Jean

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ellie Goulding

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Dean Geyer

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

Barack Obama

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Nayvadius Cash

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Rainbow Rowell

I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.

Dan Dougherty

Who do I root for? I have to keep it straight and narrow.

Shani Davis

I'm still rooting for him. He is an American.

William Shakespeare

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

Alan Trammel

Whether I'm there or not, I'll always be a Tiger, and I'll always root for the Tigers.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

Gary Beach

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.