Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

We can still show our backbone, and even though things are not going the way we want them, we will go out there and show character and show heart. We're going to compete hard and try to win every game the rest of the way.

Sebastian Faulks

The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

Rupert Grint

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

Paul Bloom

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

Ruth Ozeki

When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make them say what I want them to say. Of course, the problem is that it is an illusion, and by the end of it you realize that you're not in control of it at all; the characters have taken over, and they're driving the vehicle.

Margaret Mahy

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.

Pat Mitchell

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.

Rainbow Rowell

In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

Malala Yousafzai

I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

Philip Roth

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

Pau Gasol

We had a lot of characters and maybe they were too much for him in the end.

We had trouble during that first quarter. We had some decent shots that we didn't make. That has been our problem all year we have a quarter somewhere in the game that always hurts us. But the kids didn't quit, showing a lot of character on their part, and they kept plugging away at it.

We had to write character sketches. I was so intimidated.

Cynthia Breazeal

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

We've gotten ourselves into holes, but somehow and some way we've found a way out. That shows the character of these guys. They really never give up.

We've made every effort to create a world as close to the one in which our characters moved, ... a world that is coherent and convincing.

We're working up hill. We're proud of the way they played, their character, their intensity. They left everything out on the field, it was a very physical game. And I was proud of that part of it. I don't want them to be thrilled with leaving here because it was a loss. We have to keep that in perspective and get back to work on Monday.

O. Henry

We're very pleased with the performance, we showed a lot of character and heart out there after being 13-0 down.

Tanith Lee

Usually the characters lead, but sometimes you have such a strong theme that... they won't let you.

Radha Mitchell

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

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.

Jason Terry

We're definitely pleased with the way we contained him. The defining character of a championship team is getting stops when you need to and that's something we've been working towards all year long.