Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Quammen

There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'

Mahesh Bhatt

There, life grabs our young man and then it becomes a struggle between (his) heart and his commitment to ideology.

It is scarier now. As soon as you have a date circled on the calendar, it becomes more real.

It's all data base-driven, ... Once all the runners are entered into the data base, it becomes a simple matter of setting the parameters and finding the results.

Bucky Lasek

It's a little intimidating, but once you get over that hill, it's easy. Once you get over the fear, it becomes a lot easier.

It pretty much becomes an off-leash day every day. That's what's happening now again.

This is very important information for law enforcement that depend on the effectiveness of their less lethal devices in the field. One of the reasons police use electronic control devices is to stop problem behavior early in a confrontation and de-escalate a situation before a higher level of force becomes necessary. The force option has to work. If the suspect fights through the effects of the device the situation is likely to escalate. The situation could rapidly deteriorate, resulting in serious injury or death to the officer or suspect.

Flip Saunders

At first you're there, you're happy to be there. ... Then the pressure becomes more to produce as you're there. There's no question that for young players, there's great excitement and enjoyment. But they have to get used to making the constant adjustments that happen over the course of a series and how every game, the intensity level kicks up more and more.

It's at least another 18 months until this becomes a viable market, but it will definitely happen. Right now it's all about the consumer dollars. Everyone is putting their first effort there.

It was on the agenda, but a board member cannot make a motion without the recommendation of the superintendent, because that becomes a governance issue. It then becomes micro-management, and I'm not going to get into that.

It was a lot more real than I had thought. We were just dropped into the Guatemalan jungle with no food or water. You do forget about the cameras once you're out there, and it becomes a game where there are 17 others out there with you.

Robin Williams

It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you- when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.

It's a case of traders taking their bids off the board until the situation becomes clearer. Investors would rather buy stocks a bit later when there's a touch more certainty about the seriousness of the threat.

It's a chess game out there. For the coaching staff, sending and picking signs is the best part of the game. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game between you and the other guy.

Nathan Fielder

It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

Ralph Fiennes

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

Colum McCann

Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first stone you throw. And in my conception of the novel, the letter becomes important. But what's more important is the fact that we need to continue to tell each other stories.

Drew Goddard

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

Adam Carroll

We play together kind of like a round-robin type of thing. As the tour progresses we tend to learn each other's songs and kind of contribute. It kind of becomes a little group eventually, we try and support each other and feed off each other.

TobyMac

I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music to help as your purchase becomes our gift.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Caroline Dhavernas

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.

Carolina Kostner

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

Sophocles

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Virginia Postrel

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

Vesta Williams

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

We're still hanging around. It becomes part of your family.

People are holding up reasonably well. The waiting becomes difficult and wearing.

David Ulevitch

With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.

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.

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.