Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Payne

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

It's kind of a bizarre board. In my view, they didn't seem to come well-prepared.

It's just bizarre legislation to me to be able to go from school 'A' to school 'B' without any consequences. High school sports as we know them will become chaotic." ()

Gale Gordon

For comedy to be good, it has to be played straight. And again, the greatest example of this is Lucy Ball. No matter how wild the shows were that we did, no matter how bizarre the situations were, they were never played as if they were funny. They were played like serious incidents of ordinary everyday life. And that's why they are terribly funny and are still considered classic comedies.

Dan Brown

This is the strangest start to a season I've ever had. It's been a really bizarre start. We haven't been able to field the same lineup for any length of time. In fact, we've had only three or four days with everybody together.

Maurice Hinchey

It's a bizarre appointment. It doesn't make any sense.

It really sounds like somebody she knew. It's just kind of a bizarre thing, but then again, this whole thing has been bizarre. We're just waiting to see what comes of it.

Joe Elliott

This is the most bizarre call I've ever had. It was something you'd see on 'COPS,' but not something you go out and do.

There's been some strange things happen, but this is one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard.

Rahul Dravid

It was quite bizarre really the way we collapsed. After lunch there was a collective lapse of reason.

Ken Hitchcock

It was a really hard, really bizarre game.

Geoff Davis

It's a window into an extremely bizarre world.

Chuck Todd

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

Tom Izzo

That was a bizarre game. I thought Wisconsin played very well in the first half, and we just sort of hung in the game. I thought it hurt them when Tucker went out, and I thought we did some good things, too.

Michael Sheen

Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'

The scary thing is I've actually thought about this over the years and I really can't come up with a good reason. But it is bizarre how many have come from here.

Rivers Cuomo

I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

I've seen a few bizarre things on the street, especially in the past year, and this would be close to the top of the list.

This is the bizarre thing. This exact period I'm writing about is also a period of the most extraordinary scientific and technological achievement, from the mapping of the human genome to the creation of the internet. It seems paradoxical that there should be this proliferation of mumbo jumbo at a time of such immense change and upheaval, but that may be a partial explanation for it.

Dylan Penn

You're at a party or an event, and you're interacting with other people, but there's no shame in getting your camera out and getting your perfect angle. It's bizarre to me.

Barbara Kingsolver

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen

Jennifer Lawrence

Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.

Katie McGrath

I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn't speak a word of Chinese. There were flaws in my plan, admittedly.

Twyla Tharp

It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through.

Crime is a constantly renewable resource. Every day people continue to kill each other in bizarre and unfathomable ways. Even if murder goes down by double digits, there are still thousands of people killed in this country every year and killers who warrant prosecution.

James Zogby

Bizarre policies were implemented by the government post-9/11, ... But the pendulum's going back because a whole lot of people are pushing it back.

David Rosenberg

Bizarre is not a strong enough word. We've never seen productivity growth this strong headed into the fifth year of a business expansion.

Bill Cowher

Bizarre is a good word. I remember the game, and this morning I happened to look at the stats of the game. ... It was a really bizarre game. That was a weird year.

To imagine a Formula One car running at Bonneville is bizarre and totally offbeat. But this is exactly what it is all about. For us, the spirit of the land speed record symbolizes our sport.

We had to hire a private jet from Japan to bring (someone's) dog and a minder for the dog. It is bizarre and it is not the run of the mill thing.

Anna Friel

But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.

Tony Blair

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.