Famous Quotes & Sayings

Astro Teller

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

Clark Gregg

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.

Graham Moore

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

J. C. Chandor

The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

David Harsanyi

Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.

Paul Vallas

Middle schools are flawed organizationally. They simply don't work.

Stephen Fleming

Winning the toss is a good start. As we know, the super sub rule is a flawed rule and we have to make the most of it.

Jenji Kohan

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

Carol Berg

I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.

David Sedaris

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Menander

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Billy Joel

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Eddie Izzard

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

Demetri Martin

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

Augusten Burroughs

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

Aristotle

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Adolf Hitler

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

Alanis Morissette

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Alan Arkin

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Cary Grant

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Lance Armstrong

Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

Aimee Carter

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Billy Joel

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.