Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Smith

I think we had a very constructive dialogue yesterday.

Michael Jai White

I love the movie 'Taken,' but the dialogue in the beginning of that movie is hilarious. They're talking, these commando types, and there's dialogue like, 'Hopefully your daughter appreciates what you're doing for her. Does she know that you're doing it?' What guys talk like this?

Joanne Smith

The important part of this is dialogue dialogue of what occurred and dialogue of how we can do it differently in the future so we don't have to be in this situation.

Bob Hartwig

These are not the recommendations we will make to the school board. These are three options to start a dialogue at the public meetings.

George H. W. Bush

It was a positive step yesterday. It was a step forward in making this world a more secure place. And I want to thank our other partners in the six-party dialogue by working together.

Marisa Tomei

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

Abdul Sattar

We are prepared to enter into a dialogue with India at any place, at any level, anywhere, at any time,

Dylan Bruce

Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error.

Rachel Joyce

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

David Albright

And that's one of the things that has to give you pause, is that they have been thinking about this a long time, ... And so the question is, when did they start in earnest to learn how to make a nuclear explosive?

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Barry Hyman

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

Granth Sahib

The mouth is not satisfied by speaking, and the ears are not satisfied by hearing.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

Bible Bible

Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 6:40)

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Brent Venables

Athletically he is as good as they come. But he's not where he needs to be as a player.

Brent Venables

Athletically he is as good as they come, ... But he's not where he needs to be as a player.

Peter Chan

As long as they are good actors, I thought they would do well.

O. J. Simpson

As long as there are girls, we need guy bands. However, in this day, it is not good enough to just sing great. You have to write, sing and play. We want it all.

Chris Stapleton

As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.

Richard Roberts

As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.

John Grace

As long as you come in with a nice pair of shoes, pants and a collared shirt, you are good to go.

Josh Howard

As long as we've got a team of guys that like being around each other, on and off the court, it's a good thing for us. I mean, we can take this thing to another level.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

David Steinberg

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

Alan Evans

We're all - especially myself - influenced by old-school music, but we all listen to some new-school stuff as well. Those influences of ours, we just soak them up, and they just come out in our writing and our performances.

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Jane Smiley

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Al Franken

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

Bob Edwards

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Bob Edwards

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Alexander Cockburn

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Debbie Reynolds

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

Sam Donaldson

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

Victoria Wood

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Richard Simmons

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

Neil Gaiman

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

Marissa Mayer

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

Richard Kovalcheck

I feel like we got in a rhythm towards the end there,

Erica Jong

There is a rhythm to the ending...

John Burnside

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

Ai Miyazato

I don't feel tired at all, and want to keep with the rhythm I have right now.

Johnny Cash

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

Kirk Hammett

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

Eric Chaon

We got into a rhythm at the same time.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Brandy Norwood

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

Stellan Skarsgard

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

Randy Johnson

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

Mick Jagger

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

Michelangelo Antonioni

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Bobby Hernandez

He's the one who called it in so we were on the scene right away.

Homer

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine.

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Before Veeder

When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost. I sort of got stupid.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

Bobby Cox

I don't think it's bad, but he sure flinched when he did it.

Mark Vitner

I don't think it's a sure thing they'll tighten in December, even if it is now more likely.

James Mansfield

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Jack Moore

If it doesn't help, I damned sure don't know what will.

Dillon Dougherty

If we win this week, it will for sure be established. We are trying to get this team thinking that we don't just want to win, we want to win by a lot.

Karron Clarke

I was sure we'd get it tied and get things rolling. But every time we did, they made a big shot.

Mark Stinson

I was sure she would make (at least) one.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.