Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Greg Garcia

We try to find big, funny moments that are going to make people laugh and talk about the next day, but if we can get people emotionally invested in these characters as well, (they're) going to want to come back week after week,

Hiroichi Nishi

Key U.S. monthly jobs data, due later in the day, a three-day weekend and concerns that the Tokyo market has gone too far too fast are expected to encourage investors to take profits.

Greg Aiello

He wants to share with them his perspective on what has happened and where they go from here. He wants to have a dialogue with them and hear their concerns and suggestions about how things can be better next year.

Michelle Clayman

There are still concerns that profits will slow considerably, and that will hit stocks. But I think there are a number of stocks that are just oversold at these levels.

Adeel Iqbal

It concerns me. It concerns a lot of people, especially those who have been here for years and years.

Alan Smith

I think the pursuit of this was overly aggressive, and this reeks of a personal vendetta to me on the part of the homeowners' association. It goes back to concerns Karen had with respect to school zoning issues.

Jim Russell

I think the concerns about it are a little overblown. But I think there are enough deficiencies with it that it's worth replacing, especially for the long run.

Olympia Snowe

I think that the issue here is a fundamental fairness in having a hearing so that these issues can be explored and concerns can be raised,

Peter Bichsel

With me it always concerns the first sentence, which I must find. That is an infinitely painful business. I observe badly. I have no visual memory.

Luo Gan

To curb evil forces not only concerns social security, but the CPC's image as well.

E. Helm

Joe Biden and I consulted in my office Wednesday night past, for about four and a half hours and we covered 21 differences and resolved them.

Dennis McNally

It hurt his art, and it hurt his soul, ... And it covered up the symptoms of his health problems.

Skyler Green

I think Tennessee's defense played very well tonight. They covered us. They pressured us. They did everything they were supposed to do. They played a great game, and we just couldn't finish them.

Skyler Green

I think Tennessee's defense played very well tonight, ... They covered us. They pressured us. They did everything they were supposed to do. They played a great game, and we just couldn't finish them.

Pat Mayo

We made very good decisions on offense and defense. In our press, we covered everyone well, and once we got a steal, we passed to the right person.

Aaron Johnson

I discovered a large object in his back pocket. When he pulled it out it was covered in paper, but I saw the plastic sticking out. I pulled it back and saw the marijuana.

Theo Epstein

He says that when he covered first base, he kind of felt it give a little bit.

Elisabeth Sussman

He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to-ceiling with his drawings. So we tried to get the informality and the kind of grandeur of that installation in our installation.

Enoch Powell

Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass

Ronald Harwood

He wanted to make a picture for children. So I read a lot of stuff and he read a lot of stuff. . . . But I don't like all those fantasy books, I'm not good at 'Lord of the Rings' and the 'Harry Potters.' . . . It's not my world. I like things to do with reality and the world we live in -- or lived in.

Robin Hobb

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

Frederik Pohl

There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.

Carl Olsen

We make fun of each other, but it is a group of friends, and we are not any more competitive than a fantasy football league. There are no prizes for winning, but people still want to win.

Richard O'Brien

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Sarah Zettel

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Roger Ebert

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Jay Rasulo

If you look at fantasy for most people, they could go to Nepal. They could do it. But for most people, it will remain a fantasy.

Kay Hagan

My faith guides my life.

Li Hong

The guides are the vivid representations of the tourism attractions.

M. Russell Ballard

Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you.

Pearl S. Buck

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Science is the only true guide in life.

John Cage

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Bob Marley

God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

Jason Bay

I started this neighborhood, and it's slowly been taken over. But that's OK. I'm just going to get one of those idiot's guides to Spanish. I'm terrible at it.

Richard Wiles

I think it's a very powerful tool for parents as well as kids. We know in our society right now that we have some real issues with obesity ... and maybe this will be the insight that will in turn make a difference.

Warren Buffett

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

Walter White

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

Robert G. Allen

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

Eric Hoffer

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Paul Hawken

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Paul Gauguin

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Leonard Nimoy

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Frank Lampard

It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.

John Varley

It was nearly as contentious as wolf reintroduction.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Eric Hinske

It really hurt. He nearly took my nipple off.

Olivier Gasnier

This is a very strong report on nearly all fronts.

Mike Slive

Just the fundamental format, I think, needs explanation.

Linda Holmes

I think it needs to be a very slow process.

Susan Carney

He wants to do well and will give it everything he's got. Myles will do what he needs to do during the season to play tough competition.

Glenn Thomas

He just needs to take a long vacation.

Billy Donovan

He just needs to let it go. It's really that simple for our team.

Darrell Bevell

He just needs as many reps as he can get.

Jolanda Schreurs

I think it's an opportunity to redress that and start working in concert. Our needs should be aligned.

Ozzie Guillen

I think the only sport that really needs it is football,

Fred Killeen

We've been very conservative about that because of indemnification. Our needs are mission-critical. We really want commercially supported products.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Wayne Dyer

In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter.

Wayne Dyer

In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Russell Crowe

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

Russell Crowe

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

Roy Wood

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

Roy Wadia

Doing tests of different sorts is something we would recommend ... in any outbreak situation, especially in one of this scale,

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

Donald Rumsfeld

I slept on it, and I'm not going to recommend that it be vetoed.

Mike Hammond

We don't recommend just everybody. We don't want to be a rubber stamp.

Stuart Rose

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

Kenny Smith

We recommend you do it from a ladder, it's safer.

Sam Claflin

Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

Marcia Cross

I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.

Mike Hohensee

We'll be sure to recommend him when the time comes.

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Richelle Mead

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Rose Macaulay

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Rose Macaulay

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Truman Capote

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Richard M. Nixon

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Richard Russo

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

Michael Leunig

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

Danny Nikolic

He was always travelling like the winner. I like the horse, he will only get better.