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.

Thomas Woods

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

Rick Ross

We're having a little trouble with him currently doing a closing. We're having a little difficulty with Wilfred.

Mitchell Baker

With this reorganization, the Mozilla Foundation will look much more like the Apache Foundation than it currently does.

Hal Rogers

There is no question that mistakes were made; however, it is currently hard to separate fact from fictions and reality from rhetoric,

Dan Fogleman

Women's health is a high priority issue for Wal-Mart, and we are currently giving this issue a lot of thought.

Robbie Freeman

Most vessels of this size currently must leave our state for service.

Tim Hibbitts

We have a state where a growing number of voters are displeased with the direction of the state. If that's not a good set-up for a third-party candidate, I don't know what is.

Van Baker

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Seth Benzel

This was a step in the right direction.

Mark Stewart

We are pleased to see the industry moving in this direction. Just to give you a little history, we launched a similar program enhancement four years ago. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury CPO have been teamed with MSX International since February 2002.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Stuart Fraser

There are some encouraging signs. They're going in the right direction. Still, they've got quite a job in front of them.

Jon Tester

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

Scott Seney

This program is going in the right direction. In a year or two, this team will be playing in Albany (for the ECAC Championship).

Eileen collins

We have had a fantastic mission. We are so glad to come back and be able to say it's a success.

David Mackay

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Cameron Russell

We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.

Ekkehard Rathgeber

We're looking forward to what should be a fantastic spectacle.

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

Kenny Cunningham

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.

Joe Johnston

With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is shot much like any other action film.

Clay Johnson

Workers should be treated as individual professional public servants, not as bureaucrats. We tend to give everyone the same raise whether they're a fantastic worker or a mediocre worker.

Russ Borman

We had a very good day. It was a fantastic way to start the season.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

Chris Morris

We have to find out what happened between the first four weeks and the past four weeks. This offense isn't as productive. We have the same people, but we're not clicking.

Bob Cavanagh

We have a solid four to work around.

Ron Ledbetter

We have nine kids who have a solid shot of qualifying. Our other four entries have an outside shot of qualifying.

Daniel Becker

What the president is proposing will only save two weeks of oil over a four year period of time, not very impressive.

Paul DiPietro

When you see a team play together like we did, with four lines, that's how teams win. We have great goaltending and then anything can happen.

Kristy Curry

When you see a team do what they did, win four games in four days, that says a lot about their will to get it done.

Gigi Hadid

When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.

Graeme Souness

We want more of the same from our back four tomorrow. We know that if we can keep Portsmouth out we have the players who can score goals at the other end,

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Quinton Young

We wanted to win the conference, and even though we didn't do that we still have a lot to prove. We're heading up there with a swagger.

Tommy Shaw

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Brian Eno

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Cherie Lunghi

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Ozzie Guillen

We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare.

Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Brian Eno

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

Brian Eno

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brent Weeks

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

Billy Chamberlain

We know each other so well. We try to open it up, but every time I try to do something, he knows how to stop it.

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

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.

David R. Brower

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

Chinua Achebe

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Eric Epstein

We've all got to play by the same rules, and I think the senator wants to tilt the playing field. And I think what he did (with respect to Penn State) is what's wrong with Harrisburg.

Camille Claudel

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Stu Barnes

Work ethic, turnovers, penalties ... that sums it up.

Bill Ayers

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

Dana Gioia

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Claire Messud

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Mullah Dadullah

We have plans for more of the same.

Ricky Gervais

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Peter Ashkenaz

We have a short time to be working with the plans to make sure the beneficiaries get the information. Some plans are already doing it.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Mack Brown

Pete says if you're talking about the streak and thinking about the streak, it's going to come to an end.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Brittany Snow

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

Stefano Gabbana

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

Jeffrey Kessler

When someone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Greg Kampe

Wooten does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. He's pretty good.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Dave Shaw

She just wants to get on with her life.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.

Doug Phillips

She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right.