Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Favreau

People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Jen Lancaster

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

John Lasseter

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

Kelli O'Hara

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

Joshua Sasse

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

Gina Rodriguez

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

Julian Fellowes

I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.

Joseph Bruchac

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

Steven Levitan

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

Jim Lee

Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the industry leaders in that everything you do is scrutinized and watched.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

Jim Lee

People who liked the 'Arkham Asylum' video game can Google comics to download.

Joe Lo Truglio

I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I illustrated as well.

Jeffrey Brown

Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

D. J. Cotrona

I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.

Jeff Ross

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

Julie Klausner

I think Joan Rivers is such an untapped legend that people just don't appreciate, because they grew up with her on QVC, or they grew up with her on E!, or they grew up watching her do the things that in their minds the more prestigious comics wouldn't have taken or done.

Adam Hughes

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

Michael Walker

I was just really drawn to the campus, and to the environment we have here,

Ridley Scott

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

Liz Nichols

I think people are drawn to it because of the lifestyle.

Daniel Woodrell

I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.

Jodie Foster

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Phil Jackson

I think he got drawn into the play and didn't make the right decision.

Lynette Matsushima

I think men are drawn to Pilates because they have this vague notion it will help them with back issues. But they stick with it because it truly makes them feel better.

Bobby Carpenter

I'd like to be able to run well on a big stage like this. But I told myself I wasn't going to get drawn into that. I probably need another week and a half, two weeks.

Braylon Edwards

I couldn't have drawn it up any better.

Patrick Walsh

Outside of my parents, what I learned at De La Salle has influenced me the most in my life. Obviously, there's a huge emotional impact.

J. J. Johnson

Riley was full of smiles that whole day. It was quite emotional because we just went to watch. We didn't think that would happen. But that is what Power Soccer is all about. The game is truly inclusive.

Beck

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.

Joe Paopao

We never saw this coming. They played emotional football and, for the most part, they really had momentum and control.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Mike Huckabee

I think the reimbursement is going to come, and I am not going to worry about that, ... But I was just expressing what I know is an overwhelming situation for them.

John Paul

I am expressing a very, very heartfelt thank you for being here, and I am very grateful you are hosting World Youth Day in Canada.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Viktor Yushchenko

Huge sums of money, administrative manipulation, have all been mustered to prevent the people from expressing their voice.

Hugo Ch

He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

Stephen Harper

I actually think the (U.S.) ambassador's intervention was inappropriate... I don't think foreign ambassadors should be expressing their views, or intervening in an election.

Leonard Downie

He made a mistake going on television, giving his opinions about the investigation. ... He shouldn't have been expressing those opinions, ... Reliable Sources.

Mary Osako

making money and a person going to prison for expressing their viewpoint.

Timothy Noah

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Michael Leunig

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Marilyn Tam

Live by your principles. There's an inner voice in you that truly knows what you want, that's why I do what I do.

Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Julia Child

I think the inner person is the most important. . . . I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

Jack Johnston

He is able to do things with inner armatures that most people don't attempt.

Aimee Mullins

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

Deepak Chopra

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Gary Matt

Start with just the physical qualities of the card.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good, ... It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Steve Hodson

Physically and mentally, you've got to be tough. We did that down to the end.

Mark McHale

That wasn't physically getting beat. It was a miscommunication deal.

Lee Bennett

It got physical and we weren't strong with the ball.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

Domhnall Gleeson

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.