Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Ferrell

When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much.

Steve Breen

When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.

Steve Breen

For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.

Flemming Rose

We would run these cartoons the same day as they would publish them.

Bill Whalen

My kids are grown and gone, but I remember just how violent even cartoons were. In fact, we even pulled the television out of the house for awhile. I saw the effect.

Twyla Tharp

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.

Gary Larson

Suddenly, two bystanders stuck their heads inside the frame and ruined one of the funniest cartoons ever.

Flemming Rose

My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them.

King Abdullah

Whilst we respect and revere freedom of speech, we condemn needless desecration and injury of Islamic sensibilities, such as the recent cartoons misrepresenting and vilifying my ancestor, the Prophet.

Virginia Postrel

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

Elliott Erwitt

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.

Tom A. Watson

I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.

Ronnie Mamoepa

We have made contact with our embassy there and no South Africans are affected, as far as we are aware.

Gary Bass

We have lost contact with the orbiter; rescue units are moving position.

Lindy Ruff

When we put him in contact situation and we ran him through some drills in Tampa Bay, he didn't do so well. The strength isn't there yet. We're not going to put him in until he's in a situation where he doesn't feel like he's handicapped.

Najib Mikati

I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

Stanley R. Jaffe

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.

Nick Wechsler

Personally, I don't go and seek contact with fans, but if they happen to find me somewhere I'll say hello and speak to them for a while.

Yayoi Kusama

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

Colleen Atwood

Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are.

Paul Watson

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

Tim Mayse

We played aggressively and refused to let them establish any kind of an offensive pattern by pressing.

Cecil Ratliff

We have linebackers this year who will hit and tackle you. We have to be able to stop the run and establish it ourselves.

Ian Neilson

We are not on a witch hunt or out to get Mr X, Y or Z. We are out to establish the truth of these allegations.

Nina Garcia

What I loved about my partnership with 'Quarterly' was the fact that it bridges the online world with the real world. Sometimes we see these two worlds as separate entities, and to be able to establish a bridge is very exciting.

Vaclav Klaus

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Scott Langerock

We got off to a very fast start. Our goal at the start of the game was to establish ourselves and play our game for four quarters. You are always worried about how your team is going to respond at tournament time. Anything can happen.

Nicholas Burns

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

John Reid

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

Stephen Kinzer

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Michael Ledeen

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

Ian Bremmer

The Iranians can ramp this up or back as they're pressed. And thus far, they have shown every inclination to do precisely that.

David Thurtell

The Iranians are taking this right down to the wire.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran.

Javad Vaeidi

The Iranian nation is united on one thing. Iranians don't tolerate humiliation and threats.

Alexandre Kervinio

People know the Iranian situation will stay in the market for quite some time.

Aja Naomi King

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Bill Watterson

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Bob Schieffer

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Bertrand Russell

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Heather Mills

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

Carl Sandburg

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Brenda Fassie

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

Elaine Sciolino

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

Nick Earls

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

Denise Mina

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Kate Thompson

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Bernard Davis

We pretty much know they're going to run the ball,

Ramon Serna

When a star falls, there is a run in the night's stocking.

Vivica A. Fox

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

Cate Blanchett

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Leonard Lauder

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

Alan Cohen

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

Joan Rivers

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Mike Jones

When they are on their best, any running back can go in there and do their thing.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Francia Raisa

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Cobi Jones

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.