Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherwood Schwartz

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

Javier Bardem

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

Jeff Lemire

When I do 'Sweet Tooth,' really, whatever I want to do with the characters kind of goes. I'm sort of in charge.

Tom Hardy

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.

A. S. Byatt

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

Thayer David

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

Thomas Steinbeck

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.

Trudi Canavan

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

Jim Johnson

You can land a helicopter at the North Pole, and within 10 seconds you're off position.

Patricia Cornwell

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

Wayne Beighle

It quickly spread into a residential area. Luckily we had a helicopter that was stationed here. ... That was a very high priority fire, so they threw everything that they had at it really quickly.

Jim Horner

It took like three seconds until it was upside down. The helicopter went down so fast.

Bob Cole

It was just a very small helicopter operation with two aircraft.

Oliver North

The corpsman put the wounded man in the helicopter and made a gesture.

Roebalin Bustamante

You couldn't do this. You wouldn't be able to walk out, you'd probably had to get a helicopter to get you out.

Treat Williams

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Janet Reno

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Edward Snowden

There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline. We might steal secrets from a university research programs, and even something high-tech. But how much more does the United States spend on research and development than China does?

Brandon Sanderson

Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Daniel Goleman

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

Eli Broad

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

Lily Nicksay

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

Priscilla Feral

When Murkowski sailed into office, everything went to hell.

Will Carleton

If we who have sailed togetherFlit out of each other's view,The world will sail on, I think,Just as it used to do.

Dennis Conner

I've never sailed a schooner. Never even been on one.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Martin Kelly

I am taking it more as it comes (because it was unexpected),

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.