Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

Chinua Achebe

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

David Sedaris

The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

David Sedaris

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Alan Paton

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Moore

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Al Jarreau

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

Andrew Hopman

We have never given up, no matter how bleak things looked. These guys are fighters; they could be losing 24-2, and they'd still never quit.

Steve Morrison

Life would be pretty bleak for humans on this planet if we don't have very many species to share the Earth with.

Anita Brookner

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Ann Cleeves

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

Geoff Luebkemann

The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

David Doyle

On multiple occasions, I told Faye that from my perspective, the city administrator had done a tremendous job in steering the city out of the bleak financial situation that it was in when he was first hired.

Leo Veness

The only true sickness is home-sickness, for each and every one of us can feel how we are part of two totally separate realities. We have one foot in a linear, finite reality that seems quite bleak sometimes, and the other foot in an expansive, eternal reality that is encompassed in unconditional love for all things and also a oneness with all things.

John Wade

Obviously, he's a great talent, but I think we've opened holes for him at times. At the same time, I think he's made us better at times when things looked bleak as far as the holes. It's a group thing. It's us working for him and him working for us. It's worked out well.