Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse L. Martin

Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

Melissa McCarthy

I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings.

Ann Nocenti

I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.

Joel Kinnaman

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

Kelsey Chow

I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.

Megyn Price

When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.

Dean Young

My dad's comedic sensibilities were uniquely his own and very different from mine, ... But he was very good. He said if I should ever inherited the strip, he wanted me to infuse my own sense of humor into the strip. He wanted me to make it my own.

Judy Greer

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

Judy Greer

I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.

John Wiater

When they get moving on the construction, there will be 75-80 construction workers, and when the plant is all geared up, the workforce will (more than) double. All hiring is done under the West Virginia Jobs Act, which means 75 percent of them have to be local workers.

Steve Chavis

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.

Kerri Strug

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

Tom Massey

NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much better, and operators often prefer them because they are not knowledgeable about NonStop.

Mike Machowsky

She always had talent, but mentally ... she would get geared up and wound up.

Vonda Shepard

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

Jennifer Long

I thought they did a nice job on defense. We struggled to get our offense going. The girls were really geared up for this game. I have a lot of respect for Sofia and her capabilities. She involves her teammates, and that's very commendable.

Carole Winkleblack

We have materials in a number of languages. But most of those language materials are really geared toward learning another language.

Jerry Stackhouse

We would like to think that everything we're doing now is geared toward the playoffs. We know we're better than how we've been playing lately. It's been good to talk about the race with San Antonio, but we have to worry about getting back on track.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

ASAP Ferg

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

Hilary Rhoda

I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

Bob Hayes

That's the strength of our offense, no doubt.

Greg Page

It is a collaborative effort. After 15 years of being together, we know what each other's strengths are and who should write what song.

Thomas Grandi

I would have to say a combination of the two. We've got strength and we've got stamina.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Blaise Pascal

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Ayn Rand

Get the hell out of my way!

Martin Parr

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

David Tom

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

Aaron Boone

They completely set the tone for us tonight.

Michael Kessler

The tone that they would take in e-mail was pretty astounding.

Carol Windley

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

Heather Mills

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Max Hastings

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.