Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Walker

Regardless of people's skepticism, I am pursuing what is (and has been) my dream for my own purposes. I appreciate the importance that so many others have placed on this effort, but I would still do it if I was alone and no one was watching.

Andrew Bacevich

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

St. Teresa

Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.

John Schneider

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Richard Doherty

Stern alone can make Sirius bigger than XM within a year.

Jamelle McMillan

Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we were going to be here, let alone in state, period.

Rachel Platten

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

Chris Heaney

Our goal is always to win state, so those goals will stay the same. Bringing him in here with 500 wins, that alone will help us greatly.

Sergei Lavrov

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.

E. B. White

Refiners are exhausted, like runners in midmarathon. They've been pushing very hard since last year. As a practical matter, these things have limits. If you push too hard, capacity drops.

Deborah White

Refiners are exhausted, like runners in mid-marathon. They've been pushing very hard since last year. As a practical matter, these things have limits. If you push too hard, capacity drops.

Jeffrey Lacker

rebounds pretty strongly from this sort of event. After several quarters of rebuilding, our productive capacity should be back to about where it would have been otherwise.

Nariman Behravesh

Record-high profits, combined with solid economic growth and rising capacity utilization will translate into robust capital spending - all good news for the industrial sectors of the economy.

Dirk Meyer

Our manufacturing strategy execution continues to be flawless. The increased capacity provided by Fab 36 will contribute to our goal of doubling total production by 2008.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

Li Deshui

Such massive capacity does not match the size of our economy.

Peter Harrold

Sri Lanka has demonstrated a capacity to grow at no less than 4 percent and not more than 6 percent when conditions with respect to the conflict are not deteriorating sharply.

Kelly Jones

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

Colin Trevorrow

I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.

John Crowley

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

Richard Ayoade

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

Jason Ballweber

I enjoy directing something I've never seen. If I see it, it tends to influence my directing, and I end up second-guessing myself.

Salli Richardson

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

Michelle MacLaren

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

James L. Brooks

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'

Alex Graves

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

Sufjan Stevens

I was working on several states simultaneously. The tone of the music for Illinois seemed much more exciting and challenging to me. The music itself seemed to evoke a very big character.

Mike Fazio

If the goal of the mural was to evoke interest, than I think it?s already a success.

Theo Van Gogh

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

Sarah Hall

One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture.

Kaskade

Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

Blake Lively

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

Christopher Moore

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Stephen Sisson

The things we read in scary stories are just using our imaginations to evoke a feeling. And sometimes that feeling is happiness or sometimes that feeling is surprise and sometimes that feeling is the spooky scary feelings of Halloween.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Randy Pfitzer

Part of the goal is getting here. The other is doing something once you are here, and he has to figure that out.

George Chapline

People have been vaguely uncomfortable about these problems for a while, but they figured they'd get solved someday. But that hasn't happened and I'm sure when historians look back, they'll wonder why people didn't question these contradictions.

Matthew Stafford

People have been trying to figure out what I want to do. But I'm not even sure.

Larry Wachtel

Suddenly these inflation figures have a psychological impact.

Alando Tucker

Stay poised. We knew they were going to get up. We just figured if we stick together, keep running our offense and don't get rattled, we could still come out with a win.

Sabrina Harris

Our problem is trying to figure out what to put on it.

Kathy Lien

Overall, the headline figures are solid. January inventory figures are still on the path for solid growth in the first quarter.

Jay McKee

Maybe it's a better thing that it happens now than in the playoffs, so we can learn and grow and figure out where we need to get better.

Clayton Christensen

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Mike Sellers

They weren't winning. They was just another team in the league. Now, they're the bomb. I can't take nothing away from them. But back then, they were nothing. And they had those hideous uniforms, too.

Rachel Perry

I didn't think I was hideous or anything.

Noam Chomsky

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Steve Bruce

The kick in the teeth was the hideous mistake we made in conceding that first goal.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Melissa Peterman

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

Colin Trevorrow

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

Leonard Maltin

It is as old as the movies themselves.

Malcolm Petal

I think it was important for us to show that you can make movies in north Louisiana,

Mike Marsh

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

John Daly

I still say they made that movie after me,

Robert Sean Leonard

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.