Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Bechdel

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

Jhonen Vasquez

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Matt Groening

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Dan DeCarlo

Archie was in the fold of all the other publishers that I was working for, and I was probably averaging one story a week from them.

Alison Bechdel

And the idea that a story is true, that it actually happened, is endlessly compelling, I think, not just to me but to people in general.

Ted Rall

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

Jhonen Vasquez

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

Alison Bechdel

Yeah, I think some of that is just wish-fulfillment, you know, how little kids fantasize through their drawings. I wanted to be powerful.

Ted Rall

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Danny Maciocia

Kevin needs to solve the issue of farming before we can discuss his issues as a football player.

Michael Lange

I would welcome the governor going door-to-door with me and discussing the issues of the next session.

The Archives

has not been discussed in any meeting I've been in. And I would estimate I've been in at least 100 meetings.

Bill Fischer

There are still some practical concerns. We don't want to violate federal laws on disclosing employees' medical records but once that practical discussion occurs we can go forward from there.

Rob Cline

We've been through this before. There's been discussion about it, but nothing ever really happened. I wonder this time if it won't just because of the speed that they're getting all this information out.

Brian Samson

We think all of those three are going to happen in the next two years. Ramona will probably be next. Actually there's been some discussion about whether to make Ramona a (full) station.

Garry Kasparov

It is pointless to discuss today who will run and how.

Daniele Seitz

I think that it at least puts this enormous obstacle out of the way. Now that the polemics are over everybody can finally discuss things with less emotion.

Abbe Lowell

I will discuss it with them. But I will discuss it with them, not with you.

Jim Duncan

Knowing that figure is a valuable tool that will help guide the Planning Commission's thinking as they work to update the Comprehensive Plan.

Jason Eldredge

Keep giving it to us, we've got to figure it out. When the whistle blows, let's play it.

Brian Nichols

Just shut up. Just shut up. I gotta figure a way out here.

Sam Worthington

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

Katie Gearlds

There are so many weapons in her game that just make us so much better. I'd hate to be the other team trying to figure out how to stop her.

Mason Phelps

Having a private training ring for someone like Georgina is important. Imagine training for figure skating on the ice next to six other people. That's what it's like in show jumping if you don't have your own facility.

Jim Litchfield

Going into the season, we had a lot of unknowns. We've had to be able to try and figure out the pieces to the puzzle as the season has progressed.

David Goyer

It didn't hurt. There's no way to fully ever figure that out.

Julie Brown

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Van Nguyen

He is my heart, ... If something happens to my son, my heart will be stopped.

Darren McCarty

I'm just happy I hit the net. I'm happy I didn't mess that up. When it happens bang-bang like that, you have less time to mess up because you don't have time to think.

Jeremiah Trotter

I never planned for it to escalate like that, ... happens every other play.

Richard Smalley

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

Jerramy Stevens

I hope the big story is what happens (today).

Kevin Brooks

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

Elizabeth Smart

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Eric Bogosian

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Renee Fleming

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

Thelonious Monk

I played the wrong wrong notes.

Thelonious Monk

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

P. J. O'Rourke

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Isaac Stern

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Jon Lieber

It was just a rough day. Things snowballed.

John Hartford

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Mia Washington

It was a rough game. We just weren't competitive tonight.

Zach Pollakoff

Our shows can be uplifting for somebody having a rough day.

Dwyane Wade

Every time we play them, it's a rough game.

Mike McCoy

We just got out there and it got really rough and we couldn't get back in." ()

John Jones

We were pretty physical. That was the plan. We wanted to get rough with them and win the match.

Hanya Yanagihara

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

John Cena

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Chris Marshall

It's showing our talent off to the scouts.

Pat Fowler

(Counseling centers) aren't going to find it just showing up on their doorstep.

Samaire Armstrong

My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

French Montana

Every time I look at Twitter, there's always somebody showing support.

Alia Shawkat

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

Stjepan Hauser

We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Tim Ryan

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Glenn Richardson

I think it's time we start talking about it,

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Abraham Torres

I've been up there a long time. I just don't see the justification for what is taking place.

Bob Krabbe

This is devastating. It's unfortunate it's taking place.

Abdul Sattar

First of all there are the American offensives and then the threats from the militants that they will kill those taking part in the referendum.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Hans Vestberg

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Bob Lachky

I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.

Stephen Smith

It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual.

Chris Lofton

He was just talking about how he wished it would have worked out for me up here.

Jackie Gentry

I'd been talking about it for a long time.

Richard Ayoade

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

Russell Brand

Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.

Umberto Eco

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Rick Riordan

What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this." "Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Russ Ortiz

I could see that they were serious, ... Winning's important. I wanted to be a part of what they're trying to accomplish.