Cases Quotes

• In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Film
  • Saws
  • Exorcist

• I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Matter
  • Development
  • Rights

• If you're a content creator looking to elicit a certain emotion, we can validate that. In cases where an ad is trying to elicit humor, we can tell you if people get the jokes or not by the number of people who smile, the intensity of the smile, and the timing of the smile.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Emotion
  • Certain
  • Content

• In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Situation
  • Arrogant
  • Prudence

• I feel I should stay away from discussing specific cases that may come before the court.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Cases
  • Discussing
  • Specific

• I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Feels
  • Able
  • Pressure

• Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Book
  • Giving
  • Mean

• Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Strong
  • Cool
  • Ifs

• I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Constitution
  • Cases

• If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Black
  • Moving
  • Sensitive

• All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Example
  • Historian
  • Footnotes

• In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

  

  Kathy Sierra
  • Cases
  • Competitive
  • Compete

• When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.

  

  Chris Johnson
  • Singing
  • Track
  • Cases

• I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.

  

  Evelyn Keyes
  • Star
  • Movies
  • Cases

• We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we're just not seeing that.

  

  Scott Gottlieb
  • Nation
  • Cases
  • Deaths

• The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Country
  • War
  • Surprise

• We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Circumstances
  • Judging
  • Discretion

• I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

  

  William Banting
  • Pain
  • Interest
  • Obligation

• The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Together
  • Purity
  • Inertia

• I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Sleep

• In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Development
  • Economic
  • Form

• The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Men
  • Study
  • Psychological

• I want in all cases to do right.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Right
  • Cases
  • I Want

• Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • People
  • Kids
  • House

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