Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Sherlund

Microsoft needs to show all the 'eye candy' features that reside in Vista.

Scott Roesch

You'll see people doing short films and people doing features specifically for the Net, as opposed to people using it as a stepping-stone.

Shaharyar Khan

We have not permitted Malik to feature in this series which comes in our domain.

Zahi Hawass

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

Henry Selick

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.

Robert Scoble

On mobile, make sure Facebook's app can know where you are. That not only makes features like Nearby Friends possible but also makes your feed have a few items from your location.

Matthew Stewart

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Romy Schneider

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.

Mira Nair

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

David Puttnam

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

Al Pacino

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

David Twohy

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

David Duchovny

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

Audrey Tautou

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Denzel Washington

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Jim Morgan

When that tsunami hit, they sent planeloads of supplies and U.S. soldiers. Where's our help?

Susana Almanza

It has sent a frightening wave of terror throughout the community.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Leonard Underwood

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Matthew Engel

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.