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.

Tom Reilly

One of (the victims) was underneath his desk. He had been shot numerous times. Another was a young lady slumped over her keyboard of her computer. She had been shot through the back,

John Collins

Why should people use a keyboard when they can use a pen?

Jason Bartosic

Why don't you come up to the keyboard and read the words while I play, I'm OK with that.

Lia Ices

I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

Al Madrigal

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

Michael Marks

There are attachments you can put on the back of keyboards that will record keystrokes and send them to an off-site printer.

Marc Almond

People are always reinventing music. We were an oddity when we formed, just a singer and a keyboard player.

Bill Bryson

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Clifford Stoll

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

China Mieville

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

Anushka Sharma

I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.

Andy Grove

Only the paranoid survive.

John Green

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

Iain Banks

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

Howard Hughes

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

Lou Gerstner

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Roger Ebert

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

Sigmund Freud

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Agnes Repplier

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

Edy Ganem

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

Chauncey Billups

If it ain't rough, it ain't right

Ron Orlosky

Basically, she had a pretty rough time of it. She was always in and out of the hospital.

Greg Olsen

I had rough times. There were times that I wanted to give up and quit. Don't give up.

Matt Bryant

There hasn't been dissension, there hasn't been anything like that. And I'm very thankful for that. That can take place, especially with a rough season.

Peter Stark

To see him ski is to see fluidity, as if he were a droplet of water trickling down a rough plaster wall.

Marcus Williams

We had some rough edges, but we've smoothed all that out.

D. James

Today was a rough one for me but we got through it. I started off bad. We got the victory though, so I did enough to win.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Dan Stevens

I'm shocked at being recognized.

Gary Sheffield

Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

Dan Brown

I have been shocked at their reaction. Furthermore I do not really understand it.

Richard Shoemaker

I'd be shocked if it was done by this weekend.

Reggie Lewis

We were shocked when we had to go back out there on the onside kick.

Pat Gillick

We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.

Jeff Justice

I would be shocked if we had a verdict before the first of April.