Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Griffith

When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.

Alison Bechdel

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

Ted Rall

I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

Ted Rall

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

Ted Rall

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

Jhonen Vasquez

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

Mike Peters

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Frank King

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10.

Cathy Guisewite

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

Eric Andre

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

Jennifer Garner

It grosses me out. It's too sweet to read about or dissect or talk about.

J. G. Ballard

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

Robert Mintz

There is still no explosive evidence. Jurors will be expecting prosecutors to dissect their testimony with a scalpel.

Renee Fleming

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

Hal Sparks

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

Paul Krell

I'm not going to get into dissecting election results or predicting the future.

Patric Verrone

This list and the films on it are meant to be scrutinized and criticized, dissected and collected, viewed and reviewed. They are the literature of our industry and the legacy of our union.

Byron Samuels

I could dissect a lot of things about this game, but that shot by Konare was huge.

Bobby Bowden

We've always had problems with Wake Forest. It looks like they've figured out their problems and found themselves.

Gene Corrigan

Tom was the one who figured that out. Tom is the one who led us here.

Mardy Collins

We lacked that intensity the last 2 minutes because we figured the game was over. We've got to finish games better than that.

Jamar Nesbit

Lucky enough, I kind of figured if it did flood, I was going to be gone at least a week,

Ted Chiang

When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.

Edward P. Jones

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.

Scott McKenzie

When I got the call, first thing I did was, I thanked God, ... I figured that if God leads you to it, God will lead you through it.

Scott Browne

(Olivia) would hold onto my pockets and follow me like a caboose. Then she figured out, hey I can do that.

Tammy Crowley

She (Jackson) did a really good job out there today. She hung in there early, until she figured out the wind.

David Feider

We're in a wait-and-see mode hoping that the river is opened to ocean-going traffic.

Stephanie Stoutenborough

We wanted to win the state last year, but we're hoping to do it this year.

Nathan Parsons

Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

Dale Martin

We've always wanted to go. We're hoping to get away from it all. Now that the kids are gone, it'll be a little easier.

Kelly Green

We're sore, rusty, out of shape and out of sync. We're hoping they'll get that out of their system (today).

Tony Russa

We're going to talk, and we're going to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Scott is really important, and we're hoping that what he's done is not too much too soon. That's why it's important we talk.

Jack Allen

What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.

Dave Bristow

We're going to have to wait for more tests. We were hoping this would tell us something.

Jim Talent

Uniquely with methamphetamine, the drug isn't just used and sold in our neighborhoods and communities, it's made in our neighborhoods and communities. We're hoping this will throttle local labs because they will not be able to get the pseudoephedrine they need ... but that does not mean it's going to throttle methamphetamine altogether.

Carlos Santana

My memoir is completely not a rock 'n' roll wife's memoir,

Deborah Copaken Kogan

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Oprah Winfrey

It's a gut-wrenching memoir that is so raw and so real.

Jen Lancaster

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

Matt Gallagher

I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.

Russell Banks

Much more than memoir; it's history.