Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

Don Mischer

It had been kind of ignored before that. Disney would do halftime with characters dancing on the field, that kind of stuff. It's become much more intense over the years.

Joe Quesada

I think those characters are going to be around for a very long time thanks to you guys.

John Ellinger

He wants to go forward, and especially at Spartan Stadium, you were constantly on your heals with those guys running at you.

Terry Labonte

It is pretty obvious when you drive through any race track and there are No. 3 flags around everywhere and still fans with (Earnhardt) hats, shirts and jackets. We are constantly reminded of him.

Jim Ratcliffe

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

Joseph Muscat

Lawrence Gonzi is constantly taking the wrong decisions to the detriment of the Maltese and is not interested in tackling problems seriously

Steve Aoki

The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which means that you really have to put in a lot of work and effort in constantly designing the next sound that will move the culture forward.

Bill Clinton

You will get to the right place on all these other issues if you keep constantly expanding in your mind the definition of who is us and shrinking the definition of who is them .

Frank Rich

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

Scott Russell

The hotels are constantly trying to outdo each other.

Gary King

We are constantly testing and monitoring our two sites. We have a fully redundant site in Virginia and are always looking for weaknesses.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Mark McKinnon

This president has a real pattern of defying conventional wisdom.

Gwendoline Christie

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

Kay Redfield Jamison

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

Roland Rust

I think it has a huge impact. It's become more important, rather than less, because mass media has become less effective. It's particularly more effective than an advertisement, because people's defenses are down.

Geoff Smith

We're officially retiring as Kurt Busch's apologists, ... effective today.

Jason Witten

I think we improved tonight. We really put an emphasis this preseason on the run and I feel like it was more effective tonight.

Flip Saunders

I am happy we won, but I am not overall pleased with how we played. When we don't play well, we hold the ball. Tonight, we held the ball. I know our schedule had something to do with it, but we can't be effective when we play like we did tonight.

Daniel Perez

Right now, that is the only tool that is effective in controlling avian influenza.

John Devenanzio

Paula was so effective at what she did. I just thought she was being mean, but she was doing everything in her power she could do to make sure she didn't see me with other girls.

A. Johnson

In years past, the offensive line hasn't been big here, but they've been extremely effective in the red zone. So you can't say that's the reason. They weren't big before and they were kicking butt.

Jane Martin

In respect for our girls, I feel like we need to be there and I want to be there. I don't know how effective my presence will be. I do know I will speak up.

Jim Calhoun

In those 11 games, we did all kinds of things. We played and got better during this period. And I don?t know if we ever peaked, per se, nor did I want us to.

Will Shields

It's different kinds of strengthening things. Some things that are more specific to strengthen the things around your back, things you don't think about. I'm just going to see how I feel after today's practice.

Chuck Anderson

I've got all kinds of stuff, but I don't use them, ... They just get in the way.

Richard Eastman

It's not possible that you could get into the kinds of things that could do damage.

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Mike Wilton

The team did well at times, and didn't play well at times. It was one of those kinds of matches.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Dr. Gershman

To my knowledge, the flesh-eating kinds of infections are not on the increase. People want to find a connection, but often, even when you look there's no connection.

Tom Shaheen

We've got a lot of tired people around here. People have been working all kinds of hours.

Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Warren Farrell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Trisha Yearwood

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Nicole Richie

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.

Joshua Smith

The male singers are spending a lot more time singing with the females.

Jane Arraf

They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,

Nick Flynn

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Douglas Adams

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

Mike Jacobs

It's in the realm of operating systems that the most troublesome problems exist,

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

John Brady

They patted the pocket, ... The thing was they were all together in the room. Once they dispersed, it would have been gone. ... This is standard operating procedure.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Koichi Ogawa

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

S. Walker

In a lot of places this would've come off hokey because there's not the tradition this place has. It works here because it's not contrived. It's genuine. It's real.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Rick Morris

I know that it is coming, such as paving places in Crusader Court, but we don't know the schedule and that's not under our purview.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

Kirsten Borgstrom

There are places throughout the state that are a little softer than they've been.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Trip Hawkins

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

William Manchester

One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.