Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Jackson

The creation of this new role reflects a new emphasis on major one-off entertainment evenings. ITV is the home of big, talked-about events that unite mass audiences and we are keen to find more new and exciting opportunities in this area.

Steve Robinson

The Cows have continued to stay popular with our audiences. They are endearing personalities that are staunch supporters of chicken, and our customers not only find them humorous, but they enjoy watching to see what they might say or do. You never know where the Cows might show up next.

August Wilson

I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.

Suzy Menkes

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Samuel L. Jackson

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.

Til Schweiger

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.

Tom Goodman-Hill

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

Tom Bissell

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Claudia Tremaine

We want to reach certain people that need certain items. A lot of people are having a hard time and need some assistance.

John Brady

We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Jeff Bowden

We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.

Saddam Hussein

We have said with certainty that the embargo will not be lifted by a Security Council resolution but will corrode by itself,

Matthew Brown

We have to get the job done. We've got a certain time we've got to get LaSalle Street open, and we've got to hit that date.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job.

Rich Bowen

We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.

John Asher

We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source.

Bob Hill

We have no depth to play him, so we're just going to try to give him different looks. He's just so big, there are only certain things you can do.

Judy Greer

I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.

Mike Birbiglia

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

Graeme Simsion

A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.

Greg Berlanti

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

Alison Brie

I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie - my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

Dax Shepard

There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.

Tim Horan

We plan to make three feature-length movies for theatrical release this year, probably comedies because that is what works well for local production and we already have a stable of good comedy writers from our television sitcoms.

Alan Alda

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

Eddie Jordan

We have to find ways to limit his touches. Can we deny him more times, more possessions? When we do double, can we get out of the double team and get out to the shooters?

Ryan Toohey

The real insult to New Yorkers is denying that serious problems exist.

Maajid Nawaz

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

Ken Marino

I'm not going to deny that I enjoy a good four or five hour karaoke session. But who doesn't?

Marion Barry

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!

Edward Abbey

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

Elliot Mintz

So it would appear. Yes. I'm not going to deny that there was a split.

Billy Donovan

We were trying to experiment with some different combinations on the perimeter. In a league game, I probably wouldn't risk that, unless we went to a zone a little bit.

Bill Ayers

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.

Uday Kotak

As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

Eve

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

Chuck D.

This whole week we're going to experiment with our lineup. Every player on our team is a starter. We're going to keep working and we'll get better.

Kirk Schmaltz

We're trying to find where kids can help our team and get some confidence. Indoor meets are non-scoring meets, so you can move people around and experiment a bit. You can find out what you really have before you put together your full lineup for the outdoor season.

Francis William Aston

The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.

John Henry Carver

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

Bonnie Bassler

It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.

Tom Freston

We want to produce films here, we don't want to just distribute. We want to work with Indian producers.

Marshall Curry

When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

We used to watch some very good Hindi films made in those days.

Jaime Pressly

The process of doing films is not my favorite, but I love television. Television is a quicker turnaround. You shoot more during the day, which makes me feel more productive. It would be like, 'I did five scenes today and ten pages.' That's television.

Alden Ehrenreich

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

Kangna Ranaut

If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Kara Walker

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Jane Austen

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Jesmyn Ward

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Aasif Mandvi

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Stanley

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

Diablo Cody

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

Bryan Adams

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

Catherine Deneuve

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Evangeline Lilly

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

Jane Austen

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

James Wolcott

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Kevin Rahm

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

Michael Rispoli

That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.

Edgar Mitchell

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

Abbie Cornish

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

Dan Ahrens

There's always going to be short-term fluctuations. But we think they're going to do well in all types of markets.

Chen Shui-bian

I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.

Kevin McCarthy

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

Sara Gruen

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.