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.

Jane Fonda

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

Charles Bukowski

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

Clive Barker

Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

Clive Barker

Words are sexier than flesh.

Victor Hugo

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

Ray Bradbury

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

Margaret Mead

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

George Herbert

All flesh is not venison.

Erica Jong

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Ryan Hansen

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.

Henri Matisse

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

David Alan Basche

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Chris Hanson

You would think that would be enough. There is nothing wrong with being an underdog. We just go out and make teams respect us.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Blaise Pascal

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Britney Spears

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Jeetil Patel

Expectations, unofficial ones, tend to get much higher.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Adele

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

Stephen Covey

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Kate Winslet

My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict.

Dr. Wu

I'm her treating psychiatrist, and she did not know right from wrong.

Aaron Hill

We may not be the richest, but we know how to treat our residents,

Saint Basil

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

Kathy Fackler

By treating them seriously, they're just on fire.

Rick Clausen

I'm going to get a lot of treatment this week, as many times as possible, to get the soreness out.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.