Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine McCormack

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Carnie Wilson

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Al Gore

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

Al Gore

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

James Foley

We urge all countries in the region to respect the territorial integrity of the Congo, refrain from becoming involved in the conflict and respect international law.

Allison Tolman

I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play 'Spring Awakening' in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it's interesting.

Gerard Butler

The problem with my mind is it sways from side to side. The idea of me fantasizing about becoming an actor quickly led to depression. 'No, it was never going to happen to me.' I was a sixteen-year-old kid on the other side of the world from where they made movies. Scottish actors never really got play. There was Sean Connery, and that was it.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

It is obvious that the Internet has become such a video-driven entity. With broadband becoming ubiquitous, viewers and advertisers are looking for professional-quality videos.

Iain McGilchrist

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

I. King Jordan

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

Gerry Rafferty

The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.

Anne Lamott

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

Danny Garcia

My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking.

Don Tapscott

Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff.

Cristela Alonzo

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

Chuck Palahniuk

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Anna Deavere Smith

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

Bret Bielema

What we've been on Jack about is just becoming a complete football player. I think he is beginning to do that.

Albert Schweitzer

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

David Whyte

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

Dar Williams

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

Colm Toibin

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Alexis Korner

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

I was inspired by the brilliant minds of the doctors treating me. I had always considered becoming a doctor. Now I know what specialty I want to go into.

I wouldn't say it's a crisis. But it's certainly becoming more difficult for first-time buyers.

I would not rule out Boeing becoming partners with one of the winning bidders and getting in through the back door.

Larry Brown

Jamal, to me, is becoming our best perimeter defender. When did we think that would happen?

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

Katy has really stepped up as a leader. As a sophomore, to be that much of a leader is something. She is on her way to becoming something special.