Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

Al Alvarez

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

Chris Albrecht

How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy [Whitfield], which made everything very difficult and pushed back.

Chris Albrecht

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

Chinua Achebe

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

David Sedaris

The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

David Sedaris

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

Chip Kidd

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

David Hume

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

Boris Pasternak

We must discover security within ourselves.

Daniel Kahneman

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Dag Hammarskjold

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

Claude M. Bristol

We usually get what we anticipate.

Angela Carter

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

William Shakespeare

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

Edward Witten

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

Dwight L. Moody

There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty.

Richard P. Feynman

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Werner Heisenberg

Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

Stephen Hawking

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.