Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Twohy

Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have jumped quickly into the Necromonger universe and done an Orpheus Descending movie there. We didn't have that kind of resource. So, we said, this time, "If not that, this time, then what is it? What does this new movie look like?" Quickly, just in talking about it very simply with Vin [Diesel] in his kitchen, we decided on a survival, left-for-dead story, where Riddick could, as a character, reclaim the animal side.

David Viscott

If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

David Walton

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

David Henry Hwang

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

David Horowitz

The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?

David Horowitz

Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.

David Hume

How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?

David Hume

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

David Duchovny

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

Pete Mackanin

When he hit that second one, I took a deep breath.

Theo Van Gogh

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Sam Altman

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Isla Fisher

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.

Aaron Huey

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

Wayne Norris

Lenders are taking a deeper look into things ... maybe than they were eight months ago.

Emma Goldman

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Gary Smith

Last year we had a really exciting playoff experience so you would think that we would again. But we got unlucky in the middle of the season and we dug ourselves in too deep of a hole.

Al Davis

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

Charles Bass

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

Jody Allen

Whenever you play good defense and get good pitching, you don't need to score a lot. If we keep playing like this, we're going to be tough to beat.

Richard Jefferson

When your defense falls, sometimes your offense can be part of the problem. We were taking some questionable shots that were leading to easy transition baskets on their end.

Matt Diaz

When I let it go I had a good feeling. Seven total hits. Defense is going to win that game.

Charles Davidson

When I come in I want to spark it up. Get some steals and get the tempo up. We were scoring easy baskets when we got our defense going.

Wink Adams

We're going in thinking defense first. We're going to try to shut them down and get some offense off of our defense.

Tony Banks

We're glad to get this win over a good team that played great defense all game. This is our seventh straight trip to Troy, and we feel fortunate to be able to go after fighting for this win tonight.

Eric Flato

We're just going to have to make sure that our defense and intensity are there. We have to understand what we need to do defensively and help each other out, and hopefully we'll be able to stop them.

Cappie Pondexter

We actually focused on getting stops and rebounding. And we definitely did that. There are signs of us peaking, and I think it will come at the right time.

Cappie Pondexter

We actually focused on getting stops and on rebounding. And we definitely did that.

Kourtney Kardashian

We're definitely honest with each other... if your sisters can't tell you that you look ridiculous, who can?

Kourtney Kardashian

Kids definitely grow out of their clothes really quickly, so I'm all about mixing and matching.

Kevin Zegers

I'm a jeans and t-shirts kind of guy, but there have definitely been moments where I'm like, 'You know what? I need to upgrade a little bit.' I've tried to snazz things up as much as I can, with me being as lazy as I am.

Kevin Love

I think any time you have Phil Jackson involved in any organization, you're going to definitely look at it, and it's definitely intriguing. The Knicks are definitely a place where anybody would like to go.

R. Ingram

We had been walked off the last two days, so it was good that we stretched the game to extra innings and pulled it out. It was a good win for us, especially starting a new month and being back at home. Definitely the kind of game that can get you started in the right direction.

Michael Kors

We had a very tough time with this, and if you're looking for a job, definitely give me a call, I'd love to hear from you.

Gina Bellman

When I had the wonderful occasion to play a goofball, Jane, in 'Coupling,' it was definitely an homage to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who I just think is a genius.

Steve Wammer

Leah hurt her back before the game and went two innings. We then went to Sam but we dug ourselves a little hole.

Ed Costley

Obviously, we dug ourselves a hole in the first quarter and never quite got out of it. But I was proud of our girls for never giving up and for making the adjustments that got us back into the game.

David Daniels

My feeling is, the kids didn't get a fair shake (Friday). It wasn't fair for the kids who didn't do anything wrong, other than come out of the dugout to congratulate their teammates.

Elton Kaahu

We're ready. We got the sandbags. We dug a trench all around the back yard and we barricaded.

Dick Bliss

I am so proud of these girls. That was the largest we have been down all year. But the girls dug in on defense, and turned some turnovers into points in the second half.

Vince Sinisi

One of the greatest guys I've ever played with. He really opened up to us and was one of the guys. He treated us all like professionals. He talked strategy a little bit, pitchers that he had faced and knew, or pitchers I faced. He'd just sit there in the dugout and talk baseball.

Bud Childers

If we just could have gotten some shots to fall in the first half. We started off so well, but we just dug ourselves too big of a hole to get out of.

Ahmed Best

I dug all the fighting, like the saber fights.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't know why he got ejected. We had 14 people in the dugout yelling at the umpire and I guess he just picked out the manager. There was no warning or anything. I think it helped us.

David Duchovny

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

August Wilson

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Antony Beevor

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

Dick Cavett

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

Alan Vega

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

Kathleen Battle

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Zach Keene

We're going in (at halftime) with our heads up and excited, while Macomb was kind of down a little bit. We wanted to come out with that momentum in the second half and I thought we did that.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

David Walker

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

David Henry Hwang

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

David Horowitz

[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.

David Icke

When mind and heart come together, mind serves consciousness instead of serving itself.

David Hume

The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.

David Hume

The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.

David Hume

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

David Hume

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

David Duchovny

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

Nigerian Proverb

When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby

Tommy Amaker

We started to get some stops in the second half, and that was a key for us. We did some things that kind of put us in a hole early, but we showed some maturity to claw our way back in, and we didn't panic.

Bill Trumbo

We were in a hole early. We just couldn't let Williams shoot anymore. I was really pleased with the way we played defensively in the second half.

John Henderson

People will come here and they'll stare at a hole in the ground. There's nothing there to see.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Jim Cassidy

I don't want to be in the one hole or the 13 hole because you have to do things you don't want to do.

Ken Johnson

I was impressed with our depth. We didn't miss a beat. There's no big holes in (the lineup). That's the key for us.

Brett Bergman

I was so nervous. It seemed like the quickest nine holes I've ever played, it went so fast.

Ernie Els

I wish we could have played 18 holes in these conditions.

David Remnick

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Benicio Del Toro

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

Derek Hough

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

Charles Kelley

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Carlo Ancelotti

Lyon is a very strong team with solid organization. We put them under a lot of pressure but they responded well. I wouldn't say we have the advantage, I think it is still 50-50.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Frank Chumbley

We are going to have to find out who is going to step up when the pressure is on. We are going to have to find that out real early.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.