Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Marcia Harden

The story takes in the lives of several characters on three different levels at the same time, including the TV series. It's complicated, but very entertaining.

Marguerite Moreau

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The three hours of makeup put me in the mood every morning. That was easy. As soon as you get into the dresses and the hair, you feel the transformation starting. If only all my characters could be so clear.

Chuck Palahniuk

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

Steve Sternberg

The success of Desperate Housewives does not mean people are looking for another soap opera, ... Good characters that they look forward to seeing week after week.

John Logan

The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.

Rhianna Pratchett

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character.

Cecily Strong

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Gregory Craig

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Ken Bacon

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

John Garamendi

The problem is hidden. It's hidden in the electronics that have been damaged with water.

Miles Frieden

We'll go to Hemingway's house if it's available. It was damaged by one of this year's hurricanes, and I'm told it's been deteriorating for years.

Wendy Needham

Obviously they're trying to repair that reputation. But since their reputation has been so damaged in the aftermarket, it's unlikely they are going to fill the lost orders with replacement tire sales.

Michele Aurella

If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there.

Kevin Barnes

One of their sealing guns exploded and he severely damaged his hand.

Hugh Laurie

I find it preposterous. I can see in some ways I am playing a sexy character. The idea of a damaged genius is an interesting, intriguing character, but it has nothing to do with me . . . I think whoever is playing this role would be in the position I am now.

Darren Kimball

Automakers' extremely generous incentives in recent weeks have simply drawn forward industry demand.

Robin Lanier

As long as they're extending the contract, I think that's a signal there will be no slowdown. Perhaps there will be a very long drawn out negotiating process that will give us a lot of gray hair.

Preston Beckman

Ratings for an event like the Olympics aren't necessarily drawn from the usual prime-time television audience. For us to suddenly program differently for those two weeks would be a mistake for our network.

Keith Wilbur

Our team was fired up from the get go. They wanted to play well for the seniors. We had a good game plan drawn up from the last time we faced them and we executed it pretty well.

Christopher Abbott

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

Jaime Winstone

I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.

Meg Wolitzer

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

John Brantley

I've always been drawn to Texas. I just want to go on the visit, see what they're trying to do. Everything I've heard from people is that they like Austin.

Megan Boone

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

Drew Neitzel

Offensively, we never really got anything going. Everything we got, we had to earn. We didn't get any easy baskets.

Dee Lee

Often times we want the easy way out.

Harvey Mackay

Often, firing is a straightforward cost-cutting measure. When you're fired, it's easy to weave fantasies and imagine villains. If you are going to spend an hour feeling miserable, make sure that you are miserable for the right reason.

John Brady

Northeast didn't make it easy for us. We struggled in the first half, started to put together some solid play in the third quarter then opened it up in the fourth.

Charlie Korsmo

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Taurean Green

Defensively, we had to rebound, stop penetration and prevent them from getting easy looks at the basket.

Kevin Williams

Defensively I was worried because I thought we were giving up some easy shots, but I looked up and we've only given up seven points. A lot of times we got greedy defensively and were out of position.

Joe Galli

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Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Ken Smith

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Jerry Angelo

Probably the most impressive guy who I've interviewed.

Ken Green

Other people are going to have to play better. Other guys are going to have to get some quality minutes and make some plays.

Jon Kitna

Other guys were shocked, ... It was discouraging.

Stephon Marbury

Other guys had it going, so I took a back seat. I'm just trying to win.

Jason Treutelaar

Other guys are stepping up for us offensively.

Rob Murray

People say Danbury always wins, but it's different kids each year. These guys have nothing to do with the kids that one that first title back in 1991.

Paul Giamatti

People say he's an intimidating guy and stuff like that. I suppose he is, but it's his talent that makes him intimidating more than anything else.

Kelly Jennings

A shutout is something that always is impressive. That's something we always strive for. We're disappointed we didn't get one.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Ralph Nader

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Judith Jamison

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Benjamin Disraeli

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Billie Jean King

Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.

Brownie McGhee

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

Edmund Burke

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Robert Bork

We all have to have some sympathy for her.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alexander Pope

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.