Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Sleator

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.

Will Champlin

Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

Virginia Postrel

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Clotilde Hesme

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Bruce Springsteen really got any creative person's dream career, and his good-heartedness and good-spiritedness are part of it: both because it made the people behind the scenes want to do their jobs that much better, but it also means that he connects with an audience in a way that holds them close.

Don Rickles

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

Ted Harbert

The overabundance of scripted programming on broadcast and cable networks has made audiences mostly numb to it.

Brooke Adams

In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage.

Brian K. Vaughan

There's always that relief you feel when you're working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and that your audience will still be there to support you - and that your publisher will still exist.

John Caldwell

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away

Ogden Nash

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Common

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

Bethany Mota

I always use dry shampoo, even if my hair isn't oily. It gives me so much texture and that bedhead vibe.

Daniel Kahneman

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

Frank R. Wolf

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Evel Knievel

A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.

Ethel Watts Mumford

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

P. D. James

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

Boris Kodjoe

I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.

Eric Shinseki

In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.

Erin O'Connor

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

Adrian McKinty

A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Luka Sulic

I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.

Miranda Hart

I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible.

Karisma Kapoor

My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

Peng Liyuan

My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.

Peter Senge

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

Christopher Cotton

We've been going back and forth. My wife likes something with 'laser' in it. Laser Trail? Laser Corridor? We have to work on it.

Kim Zimmerman

We are not going to have a lot of time to do things outside, but a lot of teams are in pretty much the same situation this time of the year.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Louis Michel

Unfortunately we have such a situation in Europe, ... Demonstrations do help.

Dan Fogleman

We are pausing and evaluating the situation thoroughly at this point.

Charlotte Rampling

We are on the verge of this situation all our lives,

Pat Gillick

Usually, when you come into a situation like this,

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.