Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yukihiro Matsumoto

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

Phil Klay

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

Dana Gardner

If your end goal is to reduce complexity in types of formats, you have to juggle -- you need to demand adherence to a set of standards, a framework, or a stack.

Steve Buscemi

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.

David Marra

I love that they have such a grand vision but they can't underestimate the complexity of growing in the U.S. market.

Thomas Friedman

In this era of mounting complexity with more people, systems and products entwined in a bewildering web of global networks, explaining is an enormously valuable skill.

Richard Kerr

increases the complexity of their threat to the rule of law.

Sam Simon

The complexity of the industry is the enemy of smart shopping,

Jon Favreau

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Anne Fortier

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

Robert Browning

I would think the extra pair of eyes, extra pair of ears would maybe deter someone who may have decided to try something.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Mary Reynolds

I think it is really unfortunate that the New York University administration has decided to take a page out of the Yale administration's anti-union book, ... It's shocking that in 2000 the NYU administration decided to recognize the democratic decision of their students, and then at the whim of the president of the university, they can take away their contract, take away their grievance procedure.

Jim Crosbie

It all started with our defense. They decided to go out and get some stops.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Von Hayes

He walked into my office yesterday after San Antonio's game and said his passion is elsewhere, so he decided to retire. We wish him well.

Mike Daniels

I was looking for a hobby. It seemed like a fun thing to do.

Jamie Richardson

Kim's stuffing recipe was sent out to the media in a holiday press release just as a fun marketing tool,

Mark Mooradian

Kickoffs are a lot of fun. I go out there and just nail it.

John Tuozzo

Kids playing sports should be about learning the game they're playing and having fun doing it.

Mats Wilander

James Blake's playing tennis for the right reasons. He's playing to have fun and to find out about himself, not to win the U.S. Open.

Rusty Robinett

Jake has been working hard and that's just a lot of hard work that paid off for him. Jake is very mature for his age, but he has a lot of fun out there.

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Tiffany Evans

Kelly and I have been friends for a long time. We used to run on the 1,600 relay together here as freshmen, so it was fun to race with her for the first time.

Willie Randolph

Keep it going, I love it. The guys were having fun tonight and obviously everyone was making a contribution. That's what you need to do the job on the road and hopefully we can get something special going.

Justin Turner

Jamaal is real a humorous and entertaining guy.

Stephen J. Cannell

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

Shimon Samuels

He saw humor as a line of defense.

Mike Nichols

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

John Cornyn

I think you'll probably see not only his erudition, but his sense of humor.

Karen Leathem

I think it's sort of a trademark quality of New Orleans that people can usually find humor in the worst situations.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

Lord Shaftesbury

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Kristan Higgins

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

Kathleen Hanna

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Robert Bennett

I would say so. It's part of my life.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Stanley Hauerwas

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Mark Fuhrman

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Ron Johnson

Jon?s probably at a point where we can start to tweak some things. It?s all part of the development. That cutter he throws looks like he?s tossing darts.

Chris Bucknam

I think it looks to be an outstanding stadium.

Matt Osborne

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

Bill Cowher

He can time things up and be very explosive. It looks sometimes like he's walking and not moving, but he can go from Point A to Point B very quickly. He's a very sudden player, and I think that's what makes him unique.

Miley Cyrus

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast.

David Hofmans

He's a big, strong homebred, and he looks like Giacomo, too. Same sire, same color.

Tony Mowbray

He's been training all week and he looks fit, sharp and aggressive.

Seth Shostak

In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?

Jim Martin

There are so many parts of this project that are intertwined that they have to be staged and set up in a particular order, and they would like to get this particular ramp done first so other ramps can follow.

Lino Spiteri

What would politics be without its own particular peculiar sense of humour, even if it is not quite funny, ha ha.

Don Stewart

I think that the staff are all very well versed in the process and in this particular nominee, but so are the senators. I think you will see, and already have seen, quite a lot of support out of the senators.

Kelly Pleasants

We have to be particular about what we can take.

William Golding

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

Guy Ritchie

I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

Dave Chappelle

I like that particular kind of attention. People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

John Hensley

We take the ride, just like someone who watches the show takes the ride. We live the show script by script.

William Law

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Robert Culp

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Robert Schwentke

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Sanjay Dutt

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Samuel Fuller

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Samuel Goldwyn

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

Ryan Phillippe

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.