Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Johnston

My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.

Manny Coto

My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'

Steve Carell

When I auditioned for the part, I had no idea how beloved the BBC version was. If I had known, I would have been scared out of my mind. I just wanted to do something funny and slightly different. I didn't want to be held up to a TV icon.

Kate Adie

I worked in Bosnia, where 77 journalists were killed and 400 wounded, and at the BBC we have just lost a news producer in Africa.

Ken Morley

I have a problem finding any fault with BBC online coverage. I use your site to get a feel for what is going on (both in the US and not ). You coverage is broad (I don't try to read even a small part, but it is there if I need/want it). Wonder if I should give to you for this service. I guess I would, at a low enough level. Something per year ($10 or $15 by card).

Sarah Hall

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

Iain Duncan Smith

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Bel Powley

I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.

Lynne Reid Banks

The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Arnon Goldfinger

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

John Reeves

Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.

James Gray

needed to do something dramatic in order to gain in their warped world respect for his newly formed gang.

Diane Kruger

I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.

Diane Kruger

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.

Diane Kruger

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Diane Kruger

I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.

Edward Abbey

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

George H. W. Bush

Lynne is an incredibly important member of this team.

Marco Muller

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

Susan Wojcicki

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

J. A. Konrath

My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

Tony Kushner

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'

Bob Woodward

On the other hand, Nixon was incredibly smart and intelligent.

Pete Peterson

I would characterize the meeting as very cordial, very comfortable, ... It (the exchange) was rather free-wheeling, without reading from notes. It was incredibly comfortable.

Douglas Coupland

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

James Marsh

I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Tony Stewart

Obviously we wanted to win the race after leading that many laps.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Dean Kamen

I'm a human entropy producer.

Wyclef Jean

We produce, and we have producers we work with.

Chris Carter

I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Mindy Cohn

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Dino De Laurentiis

If no producer, no movie.