Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Ramsey

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

David Niven

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

Eugene Levy

And we find people who can improvise in character and create a character that is totally tangible and real and still get laughs, but you're getting laughs totally within the confines of your character.

And we've talked about it and talked about it and talked about it. He's never smoked, he's not a drinker, he's not a party animal. He's just a regular kid who likes to hang out with his friends. He'd rather be at a comedy club or something. No, he's learned some lessons. I don't expect there to be any more trouble out of him. The things that happened were totally out of character for him, totally out of character.

Emily is a fantastic leader. She has been an honor to coach these past three years and I am very proud of her as she leads this team into the 2006 spring dual season. Our younger players are very fortunate to have someone of Emily's character to look up to.

Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character

Christopher Paolini

Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, ... Even as he has gone through his coming-of-age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming-of-age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.

Steve Carell

Evan Almighty' is sort of a continuation of that ('Bruce Almighty') story. My character is the same guy I played in 'Bruce Almighty,' and as it is now, I am elected to Congress. God visits me while I'm a congressman, and it unfolds from there.

We live for this moment. This is what coaching is all about. When your back is to the wall, that's when character is revealed.

Abhishek Bachchan

When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.

Better to dig one deep well than 10 shallow ones.

Even though we got down a little bit, we still made a little run to come back. We played a pretty good first half. We showed a lot of character and courage in the first half, being able to match them point for point.

Andrew Adamson

Even on the phone, there was this resonance, but mainly this warmth, that was really ideal for the character.

Dakota Fanning

Even making dark movies ? when the scenes are over, I'm done. I don't stay in character or take it home. I go in and out of character and then have fun on the set.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others thinkyou are.

Petr Sykora

Every time a player gets hurt like that, it takes something out of you. For us to come back and tie it at three and win in overtime, it really shows the character of the team, and it's really special.

Jonathan Winters

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Today we've shown the rest of the world the true character of the people of Neshoba County,

David Duchovny

Everyone was like: We're doing a movie, it's costing a lot of money, you're getting paid more money, what are you going to do different? Are you going to make it better? ... The size of the screen doesn't make a big difference for the character. The character remains the same.

Julian McMahon

Every character, to me, seems to be consistently on the precipice of an explosion or going over the edge, ... So you continually have to be at that level. I feel like, as an actor, it doesn't work unless you're at that place.

Julian McMahon

Every character seems to be on the precipice of an explosion and about to go over the edge,

Michael Showalter

Every character is likeable and jarring at the same time,

Mark Knopfler

As soon as you hear her taking the line, you see the character. She's not just a girl singing anymore; she's much more representative of something female. I think that's a depth that comes from her massive experience and ability.

A tremendous effort. I can't remember too many that big. The guys showed a lot of heart and character to stay focused and get back in the game. Now, if can just take that with us (Saturday) because we're definitely going to need it.

At the end of the day, the girls showed character and fight. We have plenty of that. We were down 10 in the second half and the girls found a way to dig in and gut this one out.

Digging yourself a hole is one thing. If you have the character to dig yourself out of it, that's another. I don't think the game was handed to us by any means. The guys really dug deep. That's impressive.

Marc Guggenheim

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

Doc May is a character, ... He can look at you and tell you what's wrong with you. And if he needs to spend an hour with you, he will. He has helped me tremendously.

content of the character and intellect of our people.

Peter Gould

I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time.

Martin Henderson

Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

This speaks to the character of these guys. It's something. I can't explain it. This is just an unbelievable group of guys. You don't win as many games as they have without being different. And they are different.

Anna Jameson

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.