Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Jefferson

In order to play well in the playoffs you have to position yourself in the regular season. That's where the regular season becomes important.

Thom Mayne

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.

Investors need to watch to see who becomes the new manager.

Investors, analysts, everybody that has anything to do with Wall Street is looking for the market to go down. And in that environment the sentiments becomes so negative that there is only one direction that the market can go, and that it up.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

In the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and gains for himself what he really desires

In the past, information was presented as black text on white paper. As the world becomes more and more computer dependent, particularly in classrooms and in offices, not being able to easily differentiate between colors becomes more of a liability. Students can be left behind their classmates, and career advancement can be thwarted-all due to the challenges a color blind person faces trying to interpret colors on a computer screen.

Richard Whitehead

In these compliance and corporate governance situations it's up to the chief security officer to monitor what's going on in their environment. The process becomes error prone, and it's not real-time.

Jonathan Kozol

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

John Caudwell

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

If you think of the Earth as a rubber ball, it is still kind of squished, ... As this 'rubber ball' bounces back, the Earth becomes less flat, less oblate.

Jean Giraudoux

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

If your job is in the outer beltway of Houston, living downtown becomes less appealing.

If you start your pressure at the top of the circle, but when they get to that point it becomes live and everybody has to get tight and do their job, and that's not how it happened. There's big room for improvement there.

If you're selling a couple of thousand gallons a week, a penny (overcharge) on a gallon of gas becomes real money pretty fast.

Bob Woodward

If you want to cut that off, go read the newspapers in China. The news becomes part of the party.

Louis Leterrier

If you watch the movie and you know he's gay, it becomes so much more fun,

If you want to play this market it's hard to resist technology. The lure is tremendous, so it becomes self-perpetuating.

I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

Joel Coen

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.

I don't mean to be insensitive, but at some point you have to draw the line or the law becomes meaningless. Why doesn't (Mexico) consider granting citizenship to the spouse to go there? Why is it always our obligation?

I don't lecture any more; it bores people rigid. I read and I talk. After you teach college for a while, that becomes fairly easy to do. A formal lecture makes people sit up straight and feel like they need to take notes for an exam later, and I don't want them to feel that way.

Alan Arkin

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.

Come fall, if someone gets hurt at (weak side linebacker) is it better to put in a freshman, or move another guy over with experience and move someone up from (the middle), where we have depth? It's two-fold. We're creating depth and Matt becomes a better player.

Kelsey Grammer

He becomes the most sought-after lawyer once it is discovered he is actually a rat.

If it becomes some other type of business, it will be hard to bring it back.

If it becomes a revenue-generating source for the city, with traps that are set up to catch people, we will be back to talk to the commission about that.

Tim Flannery

If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.

Andy Roddick

I come here wanting to win ... and I think it's great preparation for next week because you are getting into your routine so it becomes second nature.

I certainly hope that people will see this as a wonderful option for the hospital. Hopefully, this becomes an alternative that the people in the community can rally around.

Oscar Wilde

I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property

Carine Roitfeld

I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.