Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Julie Regan

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Gary Barnett

But we've sputtered at times on offense, especially in the red zone. But at the end of the half, we picked up things there.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Bill Plympton

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

Shane Doan

Tonight I think we picked up our desperation and urgency. We need to do that, or else we were going to be in trouble.

Andrew Levin

We picked up everything we were supposed to.

Gene Dales

We picked up a lot yards but had no points to show for it.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Bryan Fuller

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Connie Willis

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Barry Hannah

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Ben Stiller

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Catherine Deneuve

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Robert Janssen

We are preparing like this thing is going to go (to trial).

Alvin Wyatt

McCloud is the quarterback for this week. He's the quarterback we're preparing to go with.

Buddy Bell

We're going about it, quite frankly, that Zack is not going to be here in time to get ready for the rotation. We pretty much are preparing for the worst right now. That could change. I don't think it will.

Alison Jackson

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

Mario Pescante

Up until yesterday we were preparing an Olympics, starting today we are organizing.

Alex Pettyfer

Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.

Charli Thorne

We don't have to adjust. We've been preparing for this.

Gary Pinkel

He has been preparing for this season since January.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Jane Austen

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Charles Spurgeon

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Edward Norton

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

Camille Paglia

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

Bennett Cerf

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Anthony Trollope

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Bill Peterson

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.