Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Tyler Cowen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Vince Gilligan

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

Vladimir Nabokov

An active and creative reader is a re-reader.

Robert Forster

If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.

Nick Harmer

In exchange for small budgets, we gave the directors full creative control.

Steve Erickson

In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.

Karen Haus

I just think it is going to be harder for them to get a significant share of the hard-core creative market.

David Shulman

I picked Mike because I know his talents as a creative artist,

Stephen Chow

I like working as a director most.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Oliver Stone

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

Mike Figgis

I had no plans to be a director.

Shirley Booth

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

Joan Severance

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

Mackenzie Astin

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

Helena Bonham Carter

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

Gary Weiss

I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

Mark Fitzpatrick

The dollar's a little weaker because Miyazawa retracted some of his comments, indicating there may be a need for foreign exchange intervention,

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

David Yost

We don't want the jury to hear anything less than the full case.

Jeff Ferrell

There's really no gain the $300 increase incentive they're making about the same money and they're rotating and not riding full time.

Barry Venable

There was a full and comprehensive investigation about the incident conducted,

Robert Evan

Is the price of staying full not standing up for anything? ... A school has to decide, what makes us, us?

Randy Baseler

What this says to me is, the recovery is in full swing.

Suzanne Yoculan

We tell all the girls we want them to have a full life. They can do that and still win championships.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.

Dennis Dunn

We just put too much on him, and I'm going to take full responsibility for this loss. This one is on Dennis Dunn, period.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Everton Tomlinson

George told me, he gave the money to the delegates and I am sure other members of the JFF leadership know about it. I was hoping this would not go public, because it stands to hurt football, but it is true. The delegates got money for their votes, not Samuels.

Scott Joyner

It is a world of difference. They gave Tabb something I don't ever remember Tabb having. They were more physical than a lot of teams.

Shelli Haferbecker

Jessica showed tremendous leadership tonight. Taylor has missed some time, but she has come on and gave us a big spark tonight.

James Cromwell

'Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?'

Marty Taylor

Marcus gave us a good effort. We will learn from this and get better.

Steve Spurrier

I tell you they gave us some tough battles,

LeBron James

We played as well as we could and gave a great effort. They have a lot more firepower than us.

Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Philippa Gregory

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.