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.

Sarah Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

Kenneth Lieberthal

Everyone else sees the substantive issues. But you spend endless hours working on all the other stuff: Who's going to get invited to the state dinner?

Larry Sabato

It splits his base, and it will be endless trouble for him if it goes forward, and I'm sure he won't let it happen.

Marcus Aurelius

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

Elizabeth Peyton

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

Holly Lisle

Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.

Max Mutchnick

It was time for us to come up with a new series, and Peter Roth, whom we work for at Paramount, really liked the story of our (personal) dynamic. Everything pretty much that goes on with us speaks to our history, and we thought this would really be a great place to write from, because we would just have an endless supply of stories to tell.

Lawrence Grossman

You wait for a gem in an endless sea of blah.

James Hayes

Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Bob Nicholson

He's already missed two major events because of the suspension and now he's back. He's off suspension and now he is eligible.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Jim Jones

He'll go back and forth between the two events. Basically, we're just using this indoor season to get him ready for the spring.

Walter Benjamin

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

Salman Rushdie

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Vincent Price

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Spike Jonze

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

James Altucher

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

Epicurus

But the universe is infinite.

Richard Smalley

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

Mother Teresa

To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.

Leo Tolstoy

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Joseph Murphy

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.

Douglas Adams

Ford? There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for 'Hamlet' they've worked out

Adam Sohn

For a lot of users, it will feel like infinite scroll.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Jacques Chirac

This is necessary to speed up the return to calm,

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

John Updike

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Mohsin Hamid

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Brian Finnerty

I think when we start to get strong numbers, that's when we take off again.

Mike Bradley

We're off to a strong start in 2006.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Dale Jr

I think we're all right. I think we're going to start third and fifth. I don't know; the 38's on the pole, right?

Tim Ryan

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Glenn Richardson

I think it's time we start talking about it,

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Richelle Mead

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Richelle Mead

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Russell Brand

What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'

Trey Songz

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

Rick Riordan

Annabeth's voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her--a sometimes annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.

Will Cuppy

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

Sarah Silverman

As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.