Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Morrison

When you're watching a high-def broadcast, and you see a (standard) commercial come on, it looks like someone put a sheet over your television.

Gurinder Chadha

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

Bob Harms

The cranes are easily disrupted. What we're trying to do is prevent the kind of activities, such as commercial and industrial activities, that could interfere with the cranes.

Shane Richardson

The reality is Suncorp holds 52,000 and Telstra holds 82,000. The commercial reality is unless the Queensland Government is willing to put in a lot of money to make it happen, it can't happen.

Treat Williams

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

William Brownfield

Venezuela and the U.S. are natural commercial partners, and this will not change.

Tequan Richmond

I started home school around sixth grade, but I'd only done a couple of national commercials. I remember I had this Spalding commercial with Paul Pierce from the Celtics, and I used to go to school, and people made fun of it. It wasn't even cool to be an actor; you got made fun of.

John Cassavetes

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

Joy Fielding

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

Melanie Hall

She's been the glue. She's always doing the little things crashing the boards, making the big stop, setting the screen that gets the girl open. I can't say enough about her.

Chris Leshinski

Girls were crashing nets, (making) good crosses and we were able to finish.

B. F. Skinner

I don't think we're crashing their party. We're part of this. You might as well get used to this. There are some new people in town, and you'll hopefully welcome us with open arms.

B. F. Skinner

I don't think we're crashing their party. We're all part of a new league and you might as well get used to this.

Paul Baca

Nobody expected us to be here, crashing the party. It's hard for me to express in words right now how proud I am of these girls. I'm especially proud of the seniors. When they were sophomores they went through a particularly hard season and stuck with it. Now, two years later, they're in the Sweet 16. It's a special group of seniors.

Peter Lerangis

I have an oval-shaped scar on the knuckle of my right index finger from crashing my hand through a light fixture while practicing Elvis Presley moves in college.

David Bowie

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Robert Glasper

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

Steve Adlard

He should have just eased it home instead of crashing it home.

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Therese Fowler

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Sugar Ray Leonard

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Toyin Odutola

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Thomas Starr King

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Carlos Fuentes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Charles Caleb Colton

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Byron Katie

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

Bryce Courtenay

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Elliot Perlman

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Kate Micucci

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

Jane Addams

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Dan Scott

Worst-case scenario would be a strike starting Monday.

Ulysses Yannas

I suspect the scenario is they'll get themselves an extension.

Philip Rivers

When it's all over -- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, mid-January -- then I can just play out every scenario in my head.

James Blake

Every different scenario was going through my head,

Rich Glas

We didn't make enough plays. That's been the scenario of our season.

Christian Prudhomme

It's important to have a new freshness. To have scenarios that no one is anticipating and no one can control.

Jamie Kritzer

It was just a scenario of where the winds changed. We would not have proceeded if we thought the wind was going to change.

Lucrecia Tam

This is a worse scenario than we had anticipated.

John Dos Passos

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

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

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

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

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

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.