Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Bond

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

Michel Houellebecq

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life

The defense was great. The coaches gave us great preparation. Adam (Boone) did a great job knocking down the point guard for their team. The big men did a great job of rotating on the wings when they went baseline to get charges and create turnovers.

The defense was excellent. They weren't getting any good shots on goal. The offense was real patient and took what they give us. We played ball control. When it opened up we took advantage of it.

The defense played its best game of the year, no doubt. But they can't be on the field all the time. When he have those opportunities to score, we have to take advantage of them.

(The defense) is taking advantage of the fact that the officer that made the stop is dead and can't be here to testify. The only thing Redding did was give his life to keep the citizens of Rocklin safe and it would be so wrong to grant this motion under the circumstances.

Abbey Clancy

The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

Aaron Schock

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

Alan Arkin

Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I'm working with is the third part of it - and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.

Alan Bennett

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.

Albert Brooks

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.

Alan Furst

Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

Ashwin Sanghi

There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing literary fiction or a saga! There has to be a historical connection; otherwise, the adrenalin will not flow. And I will try to bridge the gap between 'Rozabal' and 'Chanakya'.

Anna Kendrick

I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.

Anna Kendrick

I admit that I look at my social media when I'm killing time, like on a plane and such. It's just less embarrassing getting caught on Twitter than getting caught playing Candy Crush.

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

Albert Claude

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

Arthur Smith

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

Antony Beevor

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

Andie MacDowell

I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.

Adam Jones

Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

Abraham Verghese

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

Ahmed Zewail

In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.

Alex Berenson

America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.

Aimee Mullins

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Adam McKay

I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

Blake Lively

Forget the fake syrupy stuff. Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ice cream. Add some sprinkles, and you've got a delicious treat.

Michael Palin

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.