Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.

Rick Carlisle

Every point counts right now. I know David regrets what happened. We have to channel our emotional energy into emotional strength. That's got to be one our goals as we head down the stretch.

Chris Long

From Thursday through Monday, SPEED Channel takes the NASCAR fan through the entire race weekend in a very traditional way,

Gary Forrest

He's got a giant upside. He's got all the skill in the world. He's got the power, the will. He's just got to channel it in the right direction. He's a little raw systems-wise. I think he'll be one of the strongest defensemen in the league next year. The sky's the limit.

E. B. White

It's good to see The Golf Channel somehow get into it. By then hopefully it's plugged into cable.

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.

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.

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.

Martin Freeman

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

Julie Kagawa

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human.

Gena Rowlands

I like to think that Mrs. Asher is a lot stranger mother than I am. I hope that that's true. She's one of the strangest characters I've ever played.

Dan DiDio

There was a quaintness to his 1960s (cartoon) that some people felt was open to interpretation. He has always been one of the more powerful characters in the DC Universe, but he has not always been portrayed in that fashion.

Susan Isaacs

It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Ray Walston

I have worked with some very great directors.

Stephen Chow

I like working as a director most.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Rebecca Hall

You either are a good director or you're not.

Sandra Bullock

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

Jo Brand

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Carl Jung

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Stephen Hawking

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

George H. W. Bush

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Neale Donald Walsch

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

Liberace

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

Frederick Soddy

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Emmet Fox

Never forget that the circumstances of your life for tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct today.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Sebastian Bach

I acted in millions of TV shows.

Michael McMillian

When I approached Volume 1 of Lucid, I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

Giuliana Rancic

I love trainwrecks on live TV.

Simon Baker

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.

Lara Pulver

I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.

Bobby Flay

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

Bill Gates

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.

Larry King

I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.