Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Henry Bragg

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evo Morales

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

Elizabeth Warren

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake.

Doc Hastings

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.

David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Will Poulter

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Vikas Swarup

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

Emilia Fox

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

Michael Spiller

The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

Brina Palencia

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Deborah Eisenberg

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Felicity Kendal

From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.

Forest Whitaker

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

Alice Morse Earle

Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

Dennis Campbell

We are looking at a variety of forms in which investment could take place. There are no specific items that I'm in a position to discuss.

Andy Serkis

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

Monique Roffey

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

David Walton

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

Paul Kantner

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Jerry Sloan

We played a lot harder. That's the main thing. That was interesting that we did that.

Vicky Hartzler

I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

Ansel Elgort

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

Fred Tomaselli

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Lance Armstrong

I tried to control the narrative.

John Scalzi

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Anthony Wollschlager

We didn't put up the points we wanted to. Obviously, there are still things we need to work on. Over the summer we're going to get this thing right.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Tony Catanzaro

We actually had more points then they did in the second half, but we were terrible in the first.

Peter Jackson

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Al Davis

We didn't score enough points with the firepower we have.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Gretchen Rubin

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Patrick Marber

Everything is a version of something else.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Mark Lewis

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Wallace Stevens

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.