Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Young

We're aggressively working on characters because they're key for this genre.

Gene Luen Yang

We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.

We dug ourselves into holes the last few weeks. We showed a lot of character in coming back.

Jerry Robinson

We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

We don't give up. We keep working and that's the character of the kids.

Will Allen

We don't give up. No matter what, we keep fighting. That's the character of this team. And I think we can grow.

We named her Josephine after the character in 'La Femme Nikita,' ... That's the French version, directed by Luc Besson, not the American film with Bridget Fonda.

We got to see the character of this team. A couple of years ago, we might have laid down. This year, we've got a lot of fight.

We had contributions from lots of sources. I thought we showed good character on the road.

We fought hard to get this victory after the tough loss on Wednesday at Rice. This team showed a lot of character and heart in getting this done tonight.

We didn't do much offensively for about 36-37 minutes, but our guys showed some character by playing hard at the defensive end until the shots started falling for us.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Orison Swett Marden

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

Zach Woods

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

Vicky McClure

When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

Susanna Clarke

Nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn't and naturally concludes that she has gone mad.

Samuel Johnson

Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the rest.

Bennett Miller

Phil was able to ... take the physicality of the character and really ingest it and own it completely so that he could really get to the core of this guy and play the complexities.

Amy Lee

People will spend copious amounts of time and money working on a costume, only to have no one recognize what character they're dressed as.

R. A. Salvatore

Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

Nigel is a talented, solid guard that can play all three guard positions. He's very unselfish. He's a great shooter, has great character and he will fit in with our team very well for three years.

Lynn Coady

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

Marie Lu

On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series and that I've been able to see my characters through to the end of their journeys. On the other hand, I feel like how parents must feel when they send their kid off to college. It's a bittersweet mix.

Richard Harmon

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.

Pablo Schreiber

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

Peter Mayhew

After a while, the character sort of took over.

Alice Hoffman

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

We have a lot of character, ... and it showed.

Mark Kotsay

We could have folded up the tent after May, but we didn't, ... We've got incredible character in this clubhouse.

We know that when guests are familiar with Disney stories and characters they will enjoy the park even more, and want to come back again.

Carl Everett

We just didn't get the clutch hit, but we fought the whole way. We played 27 outs and had our opportunities. It shows the character of this team. We're not giving up.

Larry Brown

We played pretty darn good after All-Star break. We were about .500 and we set up a culture that enabled us to be pretty good from then on. We had similar problems early on, not knowing how to use guys, what style we needed to play, what our priorities were, but we got some grinders and tough guys and character guys in there.