Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Motson

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

Guy Spier

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

Georgette Mosbacher

I wouldn't change myself, even if I could. I like myself. And the minute you're not true to yourself, you're in trouble.

Gary Wright

My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.

My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.

I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.

George Smoot

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

Benigno Aquino III

The mandate given to me was one of change.

Iain Sinclair

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

Eric Braeden

To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

Eddie Huang

I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

Edgar Winter

I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

Flea

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

Flea

It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.

Frank Crowninshield

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

Gary Zukav

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

Gary Hamel

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

Utah Phillips

It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

Luke Evans

It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters.

Malala Yousafzai

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

Elliott Carter

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.

Elaine Paige

Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.

Edward Lampert

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Edi Rama

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

Emily Oster

The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.

Francine Rivers

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

Corita Kent

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

Hugh Grant

I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.