Central Figure Quotes

Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That's what the catharsis is.

Before I walk onto the stage, it's about the centrality of Jesus and just really keeping a focus on Jesus as opposed to ourselves.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

Every team I played for, I pretty much been the dude on it.

Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.

The principal person in a picture is light.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

My father is the sun in my universe.

You've got to find the quarterback. Once you find the quarterback, you can fix the other things.

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

All my songs could speak about the same person in different situations.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start to fall.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

Artemis Fowl will never be secondary." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly.