Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olympia Dukakis

I always look for ways to move the character to places within herself where it becomes necessary to confront something, to learn something new.

He has no way to contact his parents. Every time he talks to you, he becomes very emotional. He's just totally lost and distraught that he hasn't been able to locate the kids.

He is a very smart guy, and he'll be a constructive presence on the board. He becomes an insider and a representative of a major investor.

From the standpoint of gaining market share and remaining competitive, it's a step in the right direction. The question becomes whether they paid the right price.

Ashley Bell

For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.

If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.

If the two licenses have differing terms, there may be a conflict between the two when you try to move back and forth. If we start fracturing off more and more with different licenses, it becomes more of a legal landmine for everyone.

If the Court upholds the original finding and fines, the next question becomes whether Vista complies.

Dave Brailsford

If the game becomes hotter and hotter, they can't buy the tickets at a price that allows them to make a profit or break even. They might have to buy tickets at a loss. If it's just some guy working out of his house, he might decide to not get the tickets.

If the Freedom Party becomes part of the government, we call upon the party to continue the tradition of Austrian support for human rights and equal rights for minorities,

Jean Patou

I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon.

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.

Paul Tracy

If we're leading and he's second, I don't think he'll try anything crazy to win, but if he becomes too conservative and other guys are pushing hard, anything can happen,

If we impose any or all of our last, best final offer it does not change the requirement to continue to negotiate. What we impose only becomes a new status quo. It is not a new contract.

If they clot off, there's probably a 50 percent chance of losing your leg, whereas if you fix them electively, it becomes a couple of percent.

If they clot off, there's probably a 50% chance of losing your leg, whereas if you fix them electively, it becomes a couple of percent.

If they are not done with the shopper in mind, it becomes an invasion of the shopper's space and an insult.

If we can get settled and give him some time to throw, he's very capable. But if we don't give him any time, he becomes pretty average.

If we can't get the cost down considerably, it will be a niche product for a long time. It could be 10 years or longer before it becomes a volume technology.

Raja Bell

If we can play the way we want to play, we can do it without (size). But if teams trap us into their game or take us out of fours, that's when size becomes a factor. It's important for us to keep it at a high tempo.

Giorgio Moroder

Now, the DJ becomes a star in itself because of the way he programs the songs with lows and then highs and then slowing it down. The big DJs, like Tiesto and Deadmau5 and all those guys, they are very, very creative.

Jim Calhoun

We're trying to give him a lot of reinforcement, tell him to take a couple of chances, make a few mistakes, because you can't make good plays unless you make a few mistakes. Craig becomes more important down the stretch.

Billy Collins

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.

The only self-incriminating investigation that is considered valid is a plea of 'guilty as charged'. Since that will not be said concerning the Katrina debacle, the proposed process becomes a 'whitewash' or at least a 'light gray wash' and will not be seen as credible.

Cate Blanchett

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

Christopher Alexander

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

Dawn French

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

Ed Greenwood

When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

Isabel Allende

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters.

Hill Harper

The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.

Elaine Pagels

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Fred Wilson

The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more.

Hideo Kojima

With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.