Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

Louis MacNeice

We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.

Jared Diamond

Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.

Jamie Hyneman

One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Gore Vidal

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

Heywood Broun

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground

Dave Sim

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

Stephen Jay Gould

I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Kirby Dick

There are a lot of comedic elements. We hired a private investigator; she gets her man.

Michael Jai White

When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things, but I'm kind of defined as an action person.

Megyn Price

When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.

Shawn Levy

Many comedic stars have tried to a do a 'Night at the Museum' type film, in which an everyday Joe reacts to insane circumstances. Many flat out failed.

Jill Hennessy

She's dysfunctional but also very strong, pro-active, comedic - yet dark.

Judy Greer

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

Judy Greer

I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.

Melissa McCarthy

I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings.

Jesse L. Martin

Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

Charles Walters

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

Charles Edward Merriam

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

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.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Dianne Wiest

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Diane Warren

I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Orlando Hudson

We've got to keep grinding and stay on top of it. . . . The tide will turn for us, and we'll get it going. It's right around the corner.

Gary Player

I was grinding like I was winning the tournament.

Kevin Cunningham

We are working on something. We are still working out our situation. We are working and grinding right now.

Mike Sweeney

We've really been grinding it out, and now we are starting to click. It takes the pressure off the pitchers.

Annika Sorenstam

Sometimes you can't do a thing about it. You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

E. Hicks

We just need to keep grinding and hope they don't have a 52 percent shooting night because they're going to mostly be 3s.

Pat Flannery

We just had to keep grinding and grinding.

Barry Ritholtz

There's still upside in tech but it's going to be more grudging and grinding and choppy, it's not going to be this moon shot that we saw a year ago.

Jason Giambi

It's been a lot of hard work and a lot of grinding it out.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Oscar Lua

I wouldn't be comfortable. I prefer the laid-back, California-beach style.

Paul DePodesta

We're probably going to have to play it by ear. That's not necessarily the preferable way to go. But it's not something where we have a choice.

Kevin Reilly

We take the long view together in the partnership. Would he prefer that ('Law & Order') not move? Probably.

Richard Ayoade

I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.

Kaley Cuoco

I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

Mark Thompson

Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery.

Bud Grebey

Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.

Joe Marshall

Some of us would prefer to run in the afternoon, actually. But we won't get into that here, will we darling?

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Randall Upshaw

It's surprising to me that the prosecutor would even think about charging (Etheridge) in this case.

Owen Heimer

This exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this state,

Chris Collins

Raymond Lara is being prosecuted for who he is, not what he did and why.

Proverb

The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Lois Lowry

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Jenny Offill

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.