Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine Stowe

For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.

For the first time since I became public editor, the executive editor and the publisher have declined to respond to my requests for information about news-related decision-making.

For the first part of the game, we were equal or better (than Hunters Lane). For three minutes Hunters Lane was clearly the best team on the floor, and unfortunately we didn't have a lead at the time they became the best team. Give them credit. We had a good game plan. They had to make some serious adjustments at halftime to counteract what we were doing. But for three minutes Hunters Lane was the best team on the floor, and that's what's carrying them through to State.

Jim Copeland

In my mind and the committee's mind, Jimmy Tubbs became the standard that I judged all the other people against.

Malcolm Gladwell

In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.

I never thought something like this could happen to us. I became destitute overnight.

John Wooden

I never wanted a championship as much as I did that first one, ... After the first one in 1964, the titles seemed to come in droves. I also think I became a better coach after winning that first championship. I still continued to emphasize winning the conference, but I became a better tournament coach, putting less pressure on the players.

In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.

In addition, the market has risen steadily as of late, so I think investors were hoping to see a correction at some point. In a sense, the jobs data became an excuse for the correction.

Lois Lowry

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

Hans Frank

In 1933 and 1934 I was Reich Commissioner for Justice, and in 1939 I became Governor General of the Government General in Krakow.

In '87, Kelley Moore was an eighth-grader, and when I came in, I was a younger officer, and I became his big brother and everything that I did he thought was cool. I would just talk to him and hang out with him. Now, Kelley is a engineer with Channel 8, and he comes and gets me and takes me to lunch, and it has become a lifelong friendship.

Ted Turner

In 20 short years, by all the surveys, we became the world's most respected news source. The New York Times had been there for 100 years. We did it in 20,

I had broken up (with a boyfriend) and I was upset, standing outside the store one day. We became friends first, before anything else.

I therefore became very melancholy and highly troubled. No Scripture could comfort me, though I was quite well versed in it.

Burton Richter

I succumbed to temptation and became a scientific administrator, first as Technical Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1982 to 1984, and then Director from 1984 to 1999. The job of a laboratory director is much different from the job of a physicist, particularly in a time of tight budgets. It is much easier to do physics when someone else gets the funds than it is to get the funds for others to do the research.

I think my writing was innate. Being so painfully shy and introverted as a child, as well as an extreme thinker with a hyperactive imagination, it seems befitting. It became such a powerful passion early on in life.

Rose Schneiderman

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.

Clearly, the fact that a leadership cadre would take that step, that was significant, ... They also became a bridge for him to the broader culture.

John Logan

Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard Hughes, I could have him give a monologue about how he's terrified to touch a doorknob. But on screen, you know, working with Marty Scorsese in 'The Aviator,' that became the series of images that told a story.

became the first to propose ... the possible existence of deep ocean life under the global ice shield perpetually surrounding the enigmatic moon of Jupiter, Europa.

became convinced it's not the best thing to do.

Being one of the only people with keys and combinations to the safes, Monroe West's services became invaluable to clients like Wells Fargo and Crocker banks. He made a living going through rubble and rebuilding.

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.

Sarah Fisher

I haven't talked with her since she became famous, so I don't know if she's changed, but she's a nice person and I think that won't change.

I pretty much knew at the start. Then as the season went on I became more certain. There is a lot of traveling involved and it's a bit of a tough life.

Jess Walter

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

Scott Skiles

In the third quarter we got up on those guys and made them penetrate. We were there to take the charge. When things stopped going our way for just a couple of minutes, that all stopped as well. We became very tentative on both ends of the floor.

James Atlas

In writing this book I'm writing about my own life, a generation removed. But in the larger sense ... it was my discovery of Bellow's work, his voice that became for me the inspiration for this book. I was always fascinated by his life and wanted to know more about it.

James Atlas

In writing this book I'm writing about my own life, a generation removed, ... But in the larger sense ... it was my discovery of Bellow's work, his voice that became for me the inspiration for this book. I was always fascinated by his life and wanted to know more about it.

In the process of planning this event, it became clear that we had to do more than get them in the street and make noise. It's going to be a missed opportunity if we don't do that.

In the latter stage of his career he became a product of his time: deal-driven, acquisition-oriented and power-oriented. It forced him to do things that he wouldn't have done earlier in his career when he was picking up valuable merchandise at discount prices.

Chris Miller

In the middle of the process, it became clear that NT couldn't provide NDS functionality. But NDS for NT was just coming out, so we kept NetWare for file, print and directory services and used NT for applications servers.