Top 84 Template Quotes
#1. George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.
Drew Carey
#2. 'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.
Tom Shales
#3. In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#4. I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.
Judi Dench
#5. When this is over, the media will lose interest. There'll be nothing to say. It won't fit into a headline anymore. It won't fit into a template.
Robert Pattinson
#6. For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read - and how he wants to write.
Joe Fassler
#7. Sometimes love isn't pretty. It's not neat, and it's not textbook perfect. There's no template for love. Sometimes it's dirty. Sometimes it's a bit creepy. And sometimes it hurts.
Alessandra Hazard
#8. I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.
Philip Wollen
#9. The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.
Chris Ware
#10. Always document template method requirements by implementing matching methods that raise useful errors.
Anonymous
#11. The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.
Margaret Atwood
#12. If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.
Mark Cuban
#13. What I think is incredible about what Marvel has done and with Jon Favreau I think really maybe helped come up with, is what the template is.
Clark Gregg
#14. Mr. John Coleman, who invented the Weather Channel, represents over 30,000 scientists who cannot get their voices heard on the main stream media, since they hold a viewpoint on Global Warming that runs opposite to the government and media template. The voices of reason are being suppressed.
Peter DeGraaf
#16. I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].
Peter MacKay
#17. I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'
Billy Porter
#18. What a boon to live on the water! Such delicious shades and hues! This is a template worthy of the greatest painters. The textures of sand and stone could inspire incomparable sculptures, and the sounds - the steady lapping of the waves, the sweet chirping of the birds, make this a sanctuary.
Adriana Trigiani
#19. What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.
Joel Salatin
#20. There's no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn't be - bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
Alan Palomo
#22. I'd always thought that 'NYPD Blue' really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don't think it really did that much for network television.
Steven Bochco
#23. Being able to use the word "geek" has helped me a lot to define myself, but not as a mold for me to fit myself into, as a template to help accentuate my differences.
Jon Katz
#24. Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.
Bruce Willis
#25. I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination ... that really, really turns me on.
J. August Richards
#26. At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
Rob Sheffield
#27. The beautiful thing about love is that there is no template. It is what you make of it.
Andrew
#28. My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.
James Preston Rogers
#29. There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.
Shefali Tsabary
#30. In retrospect, 'Pulp Fiction' isn't just the template for everything Tarantino has done but the yardstick by which everything else he does is measured one way or another.
Steve Erickson
#31. Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.
Michael Light
#32. The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
Robin Morgan
#33. We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
Hanya Yanagihara
#34. Our relationship with our world is the overriding template for our relationship with everything.
David Ault
#35. I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
Patti Smith
#36. Clearly, 9/11 would have to be some of the best work that I've done because I was working without a template, and that was very difficult. Having nearly been victimized by the north tower, it was difficult to remain composed and be informative.
Ashleigh Banfield
#37. It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.
Greg Graffin
#38. If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.
Stephan Pastis
#39. I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.
Bucky Pope
#40. Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.
Paul Di Filippo
#41. 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.
Michael Spiller
#42. Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#43. Children with harsh fathers accept much of what is thrown their way as normal because they don't have a frame of reference for anything else, and this twisted template unfortunately becomes the basis for their picture of the heavenly Father.
Robert Whitlow
#44. That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.
A.R. Rahman
#45. mothering is our first preverbal template for an existence in which we feel welcomed or rejected, loved or abandoned, many of us have fused our relationship with our mothers with our concepts of God.
Geneen Roth
#46. I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.
Riaad Moosa
#47. I urge you to engrave this on the template of your memories: there are thousands of diseases in this world, but Medical Science only has an empirical cure for twenty-six of them. The rest is ... guesswork.
Erich Segal
#48. For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.
Jonah Lehrer
#49. More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
Mark Billingham
#50. Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.
Jonathan Zittrain
#51. Don't use your past romantic relationships As a template for your new relationship. Every person is different. You yourself are now different. Make it new, make it better, make it great.
Sienna McQuillen
#52. Because from what I've seen of marriages and relationships, there aren't any rules. You deal with what comes, like anything else in life. There's no template. No freaking outline. And that's what makes relationships interesting, right? The element of surprise.
Kristin Walker
#53. I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.
Martin Gore
#54. When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.
Marc Maron
#55. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
Cecelia Ahern
#56. In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.
Karen Lord
#57. The world often seemed more like a template for fiction than something that should be indulged in for its own sake.
Dan Simmons
#58. Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
Anton Chekhov
#59. Without remorse she gave good-bye to her fantasies. They'd served their purpose, they'd awoken her heart to its potential. But as far as using them as a template for her life ...
Connie Brockway
#60. I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.
Michael J. Fox
#61. The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#62. The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?
David Trumble
#63. If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.
Richard Rohr
#64. Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.
Jaron Lanier
#65. You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Woods' follows that template, then asks, 'What happens after Happy Ever After?'
Richard Corliss
#66. A relationship does not start the day two people meet; it starts in the childhood of each partner. For it is long before they meet that the template of their relationship is established.
John Armstrong
#67. The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
Billy Beane
#68. Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
Ashim Shanker
#69. My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.
Mick Fleetwood
#70. The first fifteen minutes of your day should be spent planning your day. Set specific goals as to what you will accomplish. These clear goals will give you focal points on which you can govern your actions and provide your with a template you can live your day from.
Robin Sharma
#71. Do you realize that our whole lives, every decision we've made, all the roads we've chosen - good, bad, big and small - everything has led us to this very moment in time?
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#72. Cause that's the thing about boomerangs, right? They come back even if they feel they shouldn't, they come back even if the world tries to stop them, they come back because they ultimately know where they belong ... and who they belong to.
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#73. I'll give you the moon and the stars, Princess ... and maybe a city to go along with it.
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#74. I'll give you the moon and the stars, and a city to go along with it.
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#75. Will you take me into a world filled with timeless magic?
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#76. I promise it'll all be worth it. Every splendid, euphoric and magical moment of it will be worth it.
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#77. Your love will never conquer what this society raised them to be.
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#78. You can call me Boss though, seeing as though you're only the assistant.
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#79. With no filter, he said, I thought it would have been softer. It was kinda salty ...
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#80. Tell me, Choi Yoori ... are your lips as soft as they look?
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#81. No one said finding Paris would be easy; I only said it would be worth it.
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#83. Life is not always about a past filled with mysteries or a future filled with endless dark possibilities ... it is also about a present filled with timeless distractions.
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#84. You'll tell me what it feels, right? When you find Paris?
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