Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah Murray

I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

Honeysuckle Weeks

I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.

We got to see the character of this team. A couple of years ago, we might have laid down. This year, we've got a lot of fight.

We had contributions from lots of sources. I thought we showed good character on the road.

We fought hard to get this victory after the tough loss on Wednesday at Rice. This team showed a lot of character and heart in getting this done tonight.

We didn't do much offensively for about 36-37 minutes, but our guys showed some character by playing hard at the defensive end until the shots started falling for us.

We had trouble during that first quarter. We had some decent shots that we didn't make. That has been our problem all year we have a quarter somewhere in the game that always hurts us. But the kids didn't quit, showing a lot of character on their part, and they kept plugging away at it.

We had to write character sketches. I was so intimidated.

Cynthia Breazeal

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

We've gotten ourselves into holes, but somehow and some way we've found a way out. That shows the character of these guys. They really never give up.

We've made every effort to create a world as close to the one in which our characters moved, ... a world that is coherent and convincing.

We're working up hill. We're proud of the way they played, their character, their intensity. They left everything out on the field, it was a very physical game. And I was proud of that part of it. I don't want them to be thrilled with leaving here because it was a loss. We have to keep that in perspective and get back to work on Monday.

O. Henry

We're very pleased with the performance, we showed a lot of character and heart out there after being 13-0 down.

Tanith Lee

Usually the characters lead, but sometimes you have such a strong theme that... they won't let you.

Radha Mitchell

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

Pablo Schreiber

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

Peter Mayhew

After a while, the character sort of took over.

Mike Judge

The only storyline we have right now is Luanne starts going out with this guy, Lucky. Tom Petty ( search ) does the voice. He's a character we had season-before-last, and we just loved the character and the way Petty did his voice. It felt like it really fit.

James Randi

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

Deborah Harkness

I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.

Roddy Doyle

When you are writing for fiction everything is in each word and each individual word is a literary decision, whereas if you are writing for the screen and you have a character walking into a room it is because she walks into the room: it doesn't matter if it isn't glorious literature.

Andy Reid

We will look at all phases and we will make sure we learn from the experience and we take the good from it and try to get better as a football team. With the character of players I have here, I know it will take place.

We will keep Jerusalem united and strong, with a Jewish majority and character.

There have been a lot of excellent films, character studies, and some on really tough subject matters.

Every win in this league is important. If you work hard, good things happen. We picked up a lot of character tonight.

Firewalls, strong passwords, passwords need to be between six and eight characters long, try to include numbers, uppercase and lowercase characters and symbols.

Mark Frost

FF ... He says he is currently in negotiations to pen 'Fantastic Four 2' and would love to come back again. He knows in which direction he wants the characters to head and plans to have all the Fantastic Four come back.

First is education through Christ ... character education.

extremely bright, with high character and high integrity.

Billy Collins

A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Alphonse Karr

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Chelsea Cain

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.