Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wolfgang Tillmans

Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

William T. Vollmann

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.

William T. Vollmann

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

Will McDonough

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Gloria Steinem

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

Ashton Kutcher

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needed to change me.

Alvin Lee

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

Andie MacDowell

Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'

Amanda Burton

I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Angela Merkel

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.

Bruce Willis

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

Daniel H. Wilson

You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.

Antoni Tapies

If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

David Brown

The rate of infected mosquitoes is not as high as it was in Sacramento, but we know that can change quickly,

Therapy has totally changed these days. When I first started up in town 18 years ago there were 10 chemicals (medicines to treat cancer), now there are 50.

There are a variety of factors going on in the marketplace, so I don't think you can say the Medicare change in pricing is in itself creating a single reason why individuals say they are not getting their treatment.

There is little of the grand style about these new prism, pendulum and chronograph philosophers. They mean business, not chivalry. . . . the experimental method has quite changed the face of science so far as the latter is a record of mere work done.

There is a very big change from the life of a student to this.

Joe Barton

Updating the communications laws is one of my highest priorities, ... We have made some changes and we're going to make some changes to this draft.

Ralph Brown

Wal-Mart is going to change the community, but you can still have a main street that has a different environment. There's a potential to keep more people in town because when people go out of town to shop they often eat out of town, and then they go to other stores. If people stay here more, there will be more spending locally.

Karl Malone

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

Channing Tatum

'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.

Charlotte Riley

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

Chris Stewart

I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.

Those were great times to have lived, ... As hard as they were, they tested you. I think all of us were changed by those times. Not just by The Rag but the period we lived in.

Justin Vernon

Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're singing, usually you're trying to express some kind of pain or joy. I think that voice allows me to do a lot more of that.

We have had our share of problems in trying to change the way the state deals with girls in the criminal justice system.

Mike Tice

(We have) two new linemen and the first and second receivers from last year weren't on the field, ... Those are key, important factors to note. That and there was a change in leadership in the offense, coordinator-wise.

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.

Margaret Cho

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Mstislav Rostropovich

I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.