Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Lynch

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Camilla Luddington

As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.

Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Michael K. Williams

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

Mike White

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

P. J. Harvey

Or invent new wrinkles or characters or whatever to keep them fresh.

Geoff Johns

Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites.

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Terry Teachout

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Tom Downs

Florence was chosen for several reasons, including the availability of a skilled labor market, grant and tax incentives, and its established transportation resources.

Anne Lamott

Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

M. Wolfe

Every time a gay or lesbian person is chosen as a leader by their non-gay and lesbian peers, I think it's a step forward for our community.

Mark Butler

Yes, we would have chosen to wait. We have a strict schedule.

Mark Knox

While we are concerned that our established HD DVD partner has chosen to make this announcement at this time, we remain supremely confident in the superiority of the HD DVD format.

Paul Kowalczyk

Every conference has the option of doing it how they see fit. What we've chosen to do is split it between the teams.

Peter Lindbergh

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

Michele Moore

There had been countless overtures prior to this particular publisher. But others finally convinced him that Dell was at a strategic point in the business, and this would be an opportunity to further the brand. Personally, he wouldn't have chosen to do it. It was difficult for him. He is singularly focused on the success of the business.

S. Truett Cathy

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Jeff Jarvis

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

Hillary Clinton

American leadership is essential.

George III

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

George Sanders

I am essential to the theater,

Gao Xingjian

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

Jean Rhys

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Friedrich Nietzsche

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Ryan Shupe

We were forced to make our live show the tool that would win people over.

Mahmoud Ramahi

We were forced to do these things in the past because we live under occupation. We will still live under occupation even if we are in the government.

Mike Gossett

At that point, we were forced to foul as we were most of the fourth quarter. We had to put them at the line and hope they missed and we would get the opportunity to score. We had our chances, but we couldn't hit our shots.

Kyle Whittingham

At the beginning, we forced some things. But it didn't take us long to find ourselves and get it rolling,

Curt DeHaan

We got after them with full-court pressure and forced a lot of turnovers early.

Seymour Cassel

With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.

Deron Williams

We got some shots, they missed some shots, and we converted. We forced some turnovers and they weren't able to run as much. That was good for us.

Joe Aiello

Tony (Queen) and Ray (String) did a phenomenal job defensively on Hurtado. We executed our game plan and forced him to his left all night and got him frustrated. Not many teams have been able to shut him down. He is really a special player.

Rich Rodriguez

We know people can outnumber you in the box. We will be forced to pass, and we'll have to do so. That will be an important part of the summer, how the quarterbacks and wide receivers work together, when we can't be around them.

Pete Scouras

They're going to be a handful all year, not just (tonight). He's got em playing like they're supposed to be playing and that's a tribute to him. He's done a whale of a job.

Roelof Botha

At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.

Joe Torre

Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.

Ruben Patterson

(Anthony) can't do it all by himself each and every night.

Ben Caspit

One day, the prime minister might find himself in one contretemps too many, too late. It could be, incidentally, that that is where he is today.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Ron Gardenhire

He's staying within himself right now. He's been working very hard. Hopefully it's going to pay off for him.

Tom Renney

He started to push himself as he got more comfortable with the brace.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Andy Reid

We limited his reps, but the reps he was in there, he did a nice job. He worked it today (Thursday) and we've got to see if the swelling stays out.

Paul LePage

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

Mark Perry

We have a very substantial and loyal limited partner group.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Gary Becker

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

Lindsey Hunter

My range of motion is still limited a little bit, but I working through that.

Ann Beattie

That's what I mean; if your writing doesn't transcend the era, then it would really seem to be only of very limited sociological importance.

Billy Crystal

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

Albert Einstein

when u knw ur limits u go byond them

Dorothy L. Sayers

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

Constance Baker Motley

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Ray Stevens

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

Simon Newcomb

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Stirling Moss

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Victor Hugo

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

Usain Bolt

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.

Bruce Sevy

I do think it is a service to the playwright and that's a service to the theater indirectly.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

B. R. Hayden

We'll have to take a look at it and see what the situation is and find out what's going on.

Bill Belichick

Every situation is independent. It takes two parties, or three to a point, to make a deal, and when that happens, we have one, and if it doesn't, we don't.

Commissioner Steele

This sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Sha Zukang

This situation is very undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable,

Adam Ereli

We are watching the situation in Togo closely.

David Greenlaw

You have a much, much different situation today.