Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kailash Kher

I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.

Nouriel Roubini

For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.

Pope Paul VI

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

Neville Marriner

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Nhat Hanh

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

Jaime Lerner

There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.

Mike DeWine

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

Mithun Chakraborty

I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.

Poul Anderson

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

Konrad Zuse

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is about becoming more of who you really are....

Social concerns are increasingly becoming investing concerns, and all of Wall Street is starting to factor these issues into its investment decisions.

That's a good sign that we becoming more patient at the plate. Now, we just need to get those timely hits.

Every turning point has to start somewhere, and the evidence on the industrial sector is becoming overwhelming.

As a coach I've never thought in these terms. The world is doing it, more people are becoming professionals ...and there's got to be some incentive. But sometimes passion is compromised by dollars.

Elia Kazan

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

Martin Buber

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

Quintilian

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Terry Eagleton

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

Terence McKenna

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

Marcus Aurelius

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Joshua Ferris

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

Peter L. Berger

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Peter Jackson

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

Philip Pullman

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

Paul Klee

Becoming is superior to being.

Patty Hearst

I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.

John Crowley

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

Jonathan Franzen

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

Jonathan Demme

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

Kate Atkinson

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

John Ortberg

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.