Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you're watching a high-def broadcast, and you see a (standard) commercial come on, it looks like someone put a sheet over your television.

Gurinder Chadha

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

The cranes are easily disrupted. What we're trying to do is prevent the kind of activities, such as commercial and industrial activities, that could interfere with the cranes.

The reality is Suncorp holds 52,000 and Telstra holds 82,000. The commercial reality is unless the Queensland Government is willing to put in a lot of money to make it happen, it can't happen.

Treat Williams

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

Venezuela and the U.S. are natural commercial partners, and this will not change.

Tequan Richmond

I started home school around sixth grade, but I'd only done a couple of national commercials. I remember I had this Spalding commercial with Paul Pierce from the Celtics, and I used to go to school, and people made fun of it. It wasn't even cool to be an actor; you got made fun of.

John Cassavetes

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

Joy Fielding

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

The potential for this virus to have an impact on commercial poultry production is significant. Having said that, we have been dealing with (milder) avian influenza viruses for decades ... finding it, containing it, and eradicating it.

We're in a happy situation in this country in that nonresidential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

We're in a happy situation in this country in that non-residential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Li Bingbing

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.

Laura Benanti

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Noel Wells

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

This project highlights O2's continued leadership in the introduction of enhanced next-generation communications solutions. The impending commercial launch of Europe's first HSDPA network and future introduction of IMS-enabled services here on the Isle of Man demonstrates our commitment to providing our subscribers with the most innovative services.

Kenneth Edmonds

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

Taron Egerton

I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

We're mainly a commercial and industrial contractor, but every year we do two or three high-end homes or home additions,

Much like eBay and other sites, this move provides a platform for everyday users to participate in utilizing the Internet in a commercial way while providing a service to the community at-large. Under this new structure, Expert and Elite rank users will enjoy a high level of control over the sponsored links being presented on their user pages, including their content, appearance, quantity, promotion, even their costs to advertisers.

Medical real estate is just so different from commercial office.

Ben Bernanke

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

We're going to develop a variety of options that will mix commercial and retail space on the site -- that is, move away from to some degree, the 11 million square feet of commercial space and the half million square feet of retail space that was in the original plan.

Scott Adams

We're just looking at commercial and industrial land in transitional areas.

We're really exited about it - the Inquirer really slots into our commercial and editorial portfolio.

Kym Whitley

You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley.

Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

Gwen Ifill

Nobody does commercial TV out of the goodness of their heart. There has to be a market-driven financial incentive, an economic imperative. Katie was wildly successful for so long, she created a market incentive. It made economic sense for CBS.

But it's likely it would get just a small piece of a fragmented market. They would have to staff up considerably to make an impact, in particular on the commercial side.

But commercial offerings are now so vast, she says, that ''in order to have a level playing field, they have to end up doing some of the same things.

Given that the federal government subsidized the return of the commercial seal hunt (between 1996 and 2001) we think this would be a good investment to see its end.

Get in the market. Get in the game. The only way we are going to be able to get the commercial land we need is by assembling lots and rezoning them.

Peter Kenyon

From a commercial viewpoint, I'm not concerned. We're all human and we all like to be liked.