Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Filler

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

Shawn Ashmore

One of the things I was really concerned about was having enough time to train and get the physical aspects of the character down. For Canadians especially, it's such an important image to all of us, it's something that's very recognized. I just wanted to make sure that I had time to do that properly, because if that wasn't right, then people would not necessarily be able to connect.

James Franco

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Robert B. Laughlin

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.

One of our strongest aspects of play this season has been a strong defensive system.

Andrew Brown

One key aspect of the fuel is its low smog formation.

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.

John Nash

One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

One aspect of the Pfizer story that is more difficult to nail down is how the company will use its sizeable cash hoards.

One of the aspects of White Castle that makes us unique is we like to have fun with our menu and our history,

Jonathan Scott

No one has given me input on what aspect of the game I need to improve on, but I am not blind to it. I believe my hardest critic is myself and my father. Whatever the scouts said about me, I'm pretty sure my dad has said 10 times worse.

Louis Oosthuizen

You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.

Lorrie Moore

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Kiefer Sutherland

There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

Julia Glass

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

Jimmy Smits

I like the gypsy aspect of this business.

James Franco

I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

Laura Wasser

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

We did not change anything on the role of the US government with regard to the technical aspects that we were very concerned about.

John McEnroe

The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you're in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don't even know you can come up and just dump on you.

There is a property right. You just delay one aspect of that right into the future.

I am really excited about the whole blues aspect of the festival, which celebrates the music of E.D. Bell, a Greenville man who made some of the best blues music of the 1920s.

I am still completely hands on in every aspect of my business - finally having a production manager, but the buck still stops with me on every decision big or small. I have neither a design team, a management team, a sales team or any other team for that matter!

Brian Schneider

Catchers have to create a relationship with their pitchers, and we have a bunch of new guys. It'll take a little longer in that aspect for me to get ready. Obviously, it's a disruption. But at the same time, it's not a regular thing. This is something that's going to happen just once every four years.

Car manufacturers are looking 20 years down the road when their customers are going to be older on average. Innovation is the most important aspect for carmakers, and they are investing a lot of money in this.

E. O. Wilson

But we're still in the process of investigating that aspect of it.

Jacob K. Javits

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Building reliable, dependable and secure e-commerce sites requires massive investments, ... Successful attacks can destroy the most critical aspect of e-commerce-trust. Ensuring the maintenance of trust is one of the primary functions of intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment products.

Based on our win-loss record this past season, changes needed to be made. This aspect of coaching college basketball is business. We have offered to assist those who are choosing to move on.

Tom Jones

Basically, those who want a custom-made bike deal with him (Adams) and the sales aspects go through our retail side. There are less than 10 businesses in the United States that have this combination.

Mario Vazquez

Basically, it comes down to my intuition, ... It wasn't time for me to do this now. There were certain aspects of my life that I needed to take care of first.

Jimmy Smith

I'm all about getting training from somebody that used to work with NBA players. That aspect really stood out from the other schools, being able to have a person work with you that used to work in the NBA because that's where I want to go.