Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Roy Wood

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Tryon Edwards

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Richard Davidson

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

William S. Burroughs

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

William S. Burroughs

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

William McDonough

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

William J. H. Boetcker

Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

Woody Guthrie

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Woodrow Wilson

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woody Allen

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

William Wells Brown

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

William Wordsworth

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

William J. Clinton

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

William J. Clinton

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

William J. Clinton

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

William James

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

William Gibson

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.

Will Durant

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Will Durant

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight. Lasting change happens in infinitesimal increments: a day, an hour, a minute, a heartbeat at a time....

Sarah Ban Breathnach

We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.

Richard Louv

I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.

Richard Louv

Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

Richard M. Nixon

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard M. Nixon

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Richard M. Nixon

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Robert Carlyle

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

River Phoenix

When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.

Robinson Jeffers

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed