Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Spencer

John Bland is so quick off the football he's hard to find,

Jorge Ramos

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Matt McGorry

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.

Atharva Veda

All other tastes are bland and insipid; through them, the body and mind are rendered insipid as well.

Mario Testino

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

John Galbraith

these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

Kourtney Kardashian

I was surprised that everyone calls it 'morning sickness,' because it lasted all day. For me, it was even worse at night. During my first two pregnancies, I felt so nauseous all day that I could only eat plain toast and bland foods - no proteins.

Sarah Hall

There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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.

Laura Vandervoort

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

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.

Liv Tyler

I think,it was a smart idea to shoot it all at once, because the characters will be much more complete and convincing. We were living as those characters for a year and a half.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Walker Percy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Ovid

Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

Anne Manes

I've been berating the ESB market because it's lacking in governance. This purchase really addresses that for Sonic.

Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Jim Costa

Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.

Bruce Bochy

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

Irrfan Khan

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

Fred G. Gosman

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Robyn Robichaux

He seemed like his usual self, ... Same as he always was.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

The Sense

It's how me and my friends talk to each other. It seemed very real and very natural.

Larry Long

It just seemed very suspicious that he would be doing that activity.

Louise Hall

It just seemed appropriate that I got it back on this day.

Steve Kerr

It seemed like they were disregarding the pass,

Jeff Quackenbush

It seemed like every time we made a run, well, they're a senior-dominated team and they responded.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.