Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Boyd Rice

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

C. S. Lewis

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Cesar Millan

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

Billy Carter

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

Bruce Lee

It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

Edwidge Danticat

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

Edmund Spenser

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

Edmund Burke

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Azim Premji

When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.

Ben Kingsley

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Debbie Allen

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Anais Nin

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

Swizz Beatz

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

Susan Orlean

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

Susan Cain

Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jason Shirey

It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.

Brandon Sanderson

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

Azim Premji

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

Brad Falchuk

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Arthur C. Clarke

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

Asa Butterfield

I like to keep a broad scope and read lots of different things with lots of different types of characters. Doing that is going to help develop me as an actor; you push yourself.

Asa Butterfield

When you really want a role and you really want a character, you become quite close to the script and the project, and it is sad when it doesn't go your way. But I've found there's always another one, which will be as good if not better. You can't let your failures bring you down when you're an actor, because then you can't get up.