Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Rivers

As far away as we are, we are still very close to becoming a good team. When we decided to break this team down last year, letting Antoine (Walker) and Gary (Payton) go, we understood what that would mean. We still hoped to make the playoffs and that's disappointing, but I think this team will be better sooner rather than later.

Paolo Bacigalupi

As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

Anika Noni Rose

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Shashi Tharoor

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

The bull industry is becoming like the racehorse industry.

A whole new world of applications are becoming mainstream, and people really benefit from a broadband application in conjunction with those applicants.

Charlene Li

They are being fairly careful about it, but they are walking very rapidly toward becoming a portal. They have a lot of other services gunning for them, so they have become most keen about building user loyalty so the users don't have a reason to go someplace else.

They are becoming one of our competitors. It's not too nice.

They are people who feel devalued, despised and by becoming terrorists they suddenly become supermen, heroes.

Steve Bullock

You don't want to put the spotlight on one player like that, but she's very good. She's becoming awfully tough.

Jacki Weaver

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

James Gleick

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Isaac Marion

Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

Everett Dirksen

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Esther Hicks

Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.

Fidel Castro

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

Gary Snyder

You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting with it yourself. This is just part of the work of becoming who you are, where you are.

Chrissy Teigen

Dieting is becoming easier and easier for me because I'm finding out things that I love.

Jewel

I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.

Jean-Paul Sartre

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

Iain Duncan Smith

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

Horace

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

Frederick Forsyth

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

If he is not distorting the truth, the vice president is scaring the seniors. The vice president is developing a reckless disregard for the truth and that is becoming somewhat alarming.

Michael Redhill

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

Ali Liebegott

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'

Ice fishing has become a fairly high-tech activity, with many winter anglers becoming tech-savvy by using fish locators, GPS units and underwater video cameras. By putting fishing information in an easy-to-access format on the Web, we hope to not only encourage ice fishing but also help anglers be successful and safe while they are on the ice.

Paul Tagliabue

I don't think the negotiations are going very well. Positions are hardening when they shouldn't be. It is becoming an issue in terms of the financial resources some teams have and some teams don't.

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political.

Phil Mickelson

I don't think there's any magic in four majors, there can only be four majors, like tennis. There are four tournaments that tend to stand out with history and challenge and strength of field and so forth. This is becoming one of them.

Zach Wamp

I do think that tremendous energy now is put behind the goal of becoming energy independent as soon as possible in this country.

Marc Rotenberg

I don't think cookies should be out there at all, ... but the good news here is that consumers are at least becoming more sophisticated about the appropriate use of cookies.