Famous Quotes & Sayings

When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.

Charles Francis Richter

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.

Eric Shinseki

It's important in any organization that if visions have any reality at all, it's because the organization believes that the vision is right and that they share in it. Otherwise, it becomes the good idea of one person, and that even more importantly contributes to the sense that it will not survive the departure of that individual.

Eric S. Raymond

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

Eric S. Raymond

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

Cyril Connolly

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Nimrat Kaur

As an actor, there are many confusing factors that can make you take or not take a decision. It becomes difficult. Your first and last checkpoint should be the story. I always read a script as an audience.

Nigel Lythgoe

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

Melissa Rosenberg

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

Henry Rollins

When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do, especially in other people's minds.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

James Stephens

The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?

Lauren Oliver

I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.

Tess Gerritsen

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet.

Juwan Howard

When the whole team is making shots, it feels great. We've noticed in the past, when we missed shots, guys have really gotten down on themselves. We're trying so hard. And we've lost some ballgames. It becomes frustrating. But tonight was the total opposite.

When you're missing people, your margin of error becomes much smaller. You have to execute things a lot better. We had a lot of turnovers in the first half that really cost us and opened up the game for them.

Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

(Trott) can catch a ball. When he becomes part of our depth, we're going to tap that. We're going to see what he can do. He's a very highly skilled receiver. If he comes around like I think he can come around, I see now reason why.

Josh Duhamel

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

Jerry Bailey

We've been extremely patient. We've done everything we can to accommodate them. Sooner or later, the lawsuit becomes necessary.

Henry Giroux

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

Jo Bonner

Unlike those you may have seen in your own community, I would urge you, once a steady supply of fuel becomes available, to buy only the gas you need.

Our hair becomes an extension of who we are as a people.

Paradoxically, all these wonderful dimensions that we want for our being are completely missing, being a hope, a dream about the perfection of the being. Then this hope and dream of perfection is materialized in the vision we have on our soul mate. Moreover, if we are under the impression that we know what we would want as perfection, it always remains a mere false impression and nothing more, because then the event of a Great Love occurs, we realize that what we thought to be perfection is false, and the novelty of the new imagine on the perfection embodies by the lover makes us feel that intense feeling of suffocating love, precisely because we find our new standard for perfection, which becomes this way superior to the old one.

Our core concern wasn't really answered, which is that the golf course becomes a substitute for the governor's office,

James Salter

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

Richard Branson

Statistically, there is about a 6 percent chance that in any one year of the next 10 years this becomes a person-to-person problem, and we just have to hope it is not this year.

Sumner Redstone

Some have suggested that we spin off Blockbuster, which as many of you know becomes an option beginning in the fourth quarter of 1999. Others have suggested the notion of an initial public offering carve-out prior to the spin-off.

Brian McCann

That creates jobs because Ohio becomes a place where things can be moved around cheaply and more efficiently.

George Eliot

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.