Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lydia Leonard

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

Jake Saunders

ABI Research regularly gives face-to-face television interviews with CNN, CNBC and the BBC on a variety technology subjects. Chancery Lane's close proximity to London's media enterprises helps us to respond to these requests more effectively. Furthermore we can reach out to clients and industry participants in a very timely manner.

Lee Rainie

They had their moment in the tsunami coverage, when the BBC and other (established media) opened their websites to them.

Peter Greene

There's big fear. People are selling because they don't know what's going to happen. The news out of the BBC this morning that Iraq is getting ready for chemical warfare is a big part of it.

Luke Pasqualino

In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy to get the opportunity to be one of the leading men in one of their productions.

Sarah Hall

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

E. P. Thompson

The targets are tough because much of the BBC is pretty lean

Suzanne Onorato

The things that have been really successful at BBC are the things that seem to relate better to the students there.

Terry Wogan

I've always had an unsentimental view. I don't think the BBC is my auntie. I worked there for years, and you learn that they don't love you for yourself. They'll use you as long as you're popular. You shouldn't wait until it starts to wane. It can sometimes end badly.

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Eddie Izzard

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Steve Loucks

The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.

Judy McDonald

We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.

Sandy Prince

We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.

Ken Hammond

We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,

Luke Mitchell

I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don't do cardio - I did too much in my tennis-playing days!

Dan Casey

When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

Chad Coleman

Whenever you have the creator pulling your card and saying they want you to be a part of it, you're in a pretty good position.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Marian Seldes

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Daryl Hall

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Troy Dolan

When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.

Terry Trippler

United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.

Dave Bautista

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

Michael Ovitz

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at.

Trevor Pryce

Absolutely, I think we've always looked at him that way,

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Jamie Wyeth

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

Robert Henri

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Paul Cezanne

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Jordan Bridges

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

Hugo Chavez

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Alfred Stieglitz

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Tommy Lasorda

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Michael Faraday

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

Mary Ellen Mark

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Simon Schama

A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Marlon Byrd

It's a terrible loss. We had so many chances.

Bob Cook

It was a terrible day, ... We just wanted to get off the course.