Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clare Balding

When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.

O. Henry

We hate surf schools. Basically, surf schools bring so many people to the lineup that it becomes hazardous.

Howard Stern

I worry about going too far. I'm not going to do that, not because I'm a prude, but because it becomes mind-numbing and it doesn't make you laugh. I don't want to curse.

My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.

Mostly I want people to realize there's only so much we can do before it becomes harassment.

W. S. Gilbert

When the computers came in and took over, things got much cheaper. In the old days, dedicated video equipment was very expensive. Today the entry point is much lower. I would never buy anything I couldn't pay for in two years, because it becomes obsolete.

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.

Mark Johnson

When that wind comes up, it gets your attention. Club selection becomes very, very important.

When that character is right there, part of your life cleaning you or doing whatever they're doing, it becomes so much more real for all of us.

When structural damage becomes apparent, it is usually the result of years of infestation. Generally, termite problems only occur 10 or more years after construction.

Susanna Clarke

You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.

You like it when someone becomes a pop-culture icon and deserves it.

The affordability issue becomes very real when mortgage rates rise because a lot of people have taken out interest only loans or adjustable rate mortgages thinking that rates would stay low.

Al Pacino

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

The argument, of course, is that Michelle is not learning to win, but I don't buy that. When you are a pioneer and you take chances, people expect less in terms of performance. Style becomes more important than substance. You can not always succeed as a pioneer and still be hailed.

Frank Lampard

The anticipation of the World Cup is building more and more with every week now. As the season goes on, it becomes sharper in your mind and you can't help but start to get excited about it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.

Zoe Sugg

If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

Henry Beston

The quality of life, which in the ardor of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer

Ben Kingsley

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

Ben Horowitz

Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.

Unfortunately, sometimes you see big wealth transfers occur when something becomes scarce.

You have so many other things that you don't want to dilute the market so much that it becomes too much. I think it's going to be real exciting.

Clinton Portis

Well, ... I might as well keep a sense of humor because if I leave it up to you all, you're going to run me into the ground, drive me crazy. The last two weeks we haven't won, so now it's becoming a problem. When you're winning, it really don't matter, but when you're not winning, it becomes a problem. We've lost our last two games, and I've got to find a way to get in the end zone.

Right now only one person controls the kernel, but if it becomes more proprietary with third-party applications, the situation changes.

Repartee: What a person thinks of after he becomes a departee

It doesn't take a lot to learn what gap you should hit by bringing eight guys when only seven are blocking. But when you have to protect and not (be familiar) with an offense or a coach for a long period of time, it becomes confusing in the line of fire.

Thaksin Shinawatra

It doesn't matter who is president but the sooner the region's politics becomes stable, the better.

Nick Harkaway

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

Anita Roddick

To succeed you have to believe in something with sucha passion that it becomes a reality.

This new media becomes much more important to us because conservatives have been more dominant in traditional media. This stuff becomes really critical for us.

Peter Greene

War news is having a fingernail-biting impact generally. Right now, there's a sense of people not wanting to do much until the troops get to Baghdad, which could happen in the next day or two. But there's also the hope of some sort of diplomatic resolution before this situation becomes a runaway train. I don't think either side wants to see this prolonged.

Meg Whitman

We are very pleased with our second-quarter results. Everyday the eBay marketplace becomes indispensable to more people and small businesses around the world.