Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Payne

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

Cassandra Peterson

I was probably about 13 or 14, and I went by myself to the City Auditorium in Colorado Springs and saw the guy who wrote and sang "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini." Brian something. And I got to meet him and he signed an autograph for me, a little piece of paper. Brian Hyland! It was so bizarre.

Jennifer Lawrence

Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.

David Guetta

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

David Brin

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Brooks Shumake

I was sitting in the dugout thinking earlier in the game that it would be a little bizarre if we would've won 2-1 again. I'll take a 2-1 win any night, but I sure do love those 6-1 wins a little bit better. You can breathe a little bit easier.

Larry Hill

I would say bizarre is a good word for it. Obviously, it's what they believe in. But it's a different mind-set.

Scott Bergland

I would say 'beat' is a nice word to use. It was a bizarre game, where every fluke thing that could've gone against us did.

Toba Beta

There are many bizarre alien things at beyond and within the planet earth. The future of our civilization really depends on our willingness to mingle with them.

Bob Ball

When we benchmark, we take the hard data from the quarterly census of employment and wages. If their method is consistent, this is the first year in some time that we've shown a positive increase. . . . But it does support what we've been saying all along that the economy is booming, booming, booming.

Brian Bode

We're going to look at the last strategic plan and come up with a method for a good strategic plan by the end of the year, with community involvement.

Barton Gellman

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Jim Scherr

With their population base and the methods they use to funnel athletes into programs, they are very close to where the Cubans, East Germans and Eastern Europeans used to be.

Danny Martin

With my method, you learn how to move your entire body as if it was one snowboarding unit instead of a person on a snowboard. It takes practice, the balancing techniques. You can almost call it a discipline. I would say my students learn quicker than what they'd learn in the conventional way. My method is that you are taught how to move as if the snowboard is a part of you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We face a hostile ideology (communism): global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Akhenaton

Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

Charles Baudelaire

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.