Famous Quotes & Sayings

We do have some concerns. We've gotten a little rain in the last week or two but with it becoming warm, dry and windy this week, we'll have a lot of fires.

While at one time organized labor played a valuable role in establishing workers' rights when there were few protected by government, today it is clinging to a world that no longer exists, and, in doing so, risks becoming completely irrelevant and ineffective,

which in previous periods was an interesting technological novelty but is now becoming a mainstream purchase for corporations in the United Kingdom.

Loudon Wainwright III

You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

Justin Kirk

You always have these moments when projects are over when you wonder if you'll ever work again. In the end, what it comes down to is that it's a fine line between becoming too enamored of your own success and maintaining the confidence to do what you do and do it well. That's the line every actor, if they're lucky, has to walk.

Yesterday we were down because of Saudi Arabia. In the past few days we have seen the fate of markets in the UAE becoming more related to the fate of the Saudi (market).

We're a good team, ... But we're showing signs of becoming a great team by winning games like these.

We don't want to lose the feel that it's Gilroy's Garlic Festival. That it is for the people of Gilroy to show the rest of the world who we are. We don't want to lose that by becoming too corporate.

We do support the city of Orr's concern for safety, ... But we're still in the research mode here. Just because a law is passed doesn't mean that the local police or other law enforcement are capable of enforcing it. We don't know if we have enforceability yet. We're hoping it's something that the railroad will work out with the city of Orr rather than becoming an adversarial relationship.

Herbie Hancock

Well, I was becoming more of a jazz snob, in thinking that jazz was a higher kind of music, and that R&B was, yes, for the body and more commercial.

We had Jose McDermott at running back the other day, and he did all right. Drew was a star in youth football, but he's a bit undersized for high school football. He has the potential of becoming a real good lineman. He just needs to continue to work on his strength.

Cassandra Wilson

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Bill Cowher

I would never stand in the way of any of our coaches if they have a dream of becoming a head coach. We'll work within the league structure. ... I have no problem with that.

Michael Anderson

I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of controlling the situation. I thought everyone did a great job in preventing the situation from becoming much worse.

Reggie Bush

I would like to be known first and foremost as a running back. Over this summer, I really tried to focus on becoming a complete running back and just showing everybody I can run between the tackles, around the tackles. I can do it all.

Microsoft is becoming more and more a server company and less and less a classic PC company,

Microsoft is very good at momentum marketing. It can turn reports of strong growth in revenues, software licenses shipments, or clients being supported into a message that Windows NT is becoming the de facto standard.

Dave Murray

Mexico is now becoming the epicenter here. It's the traditional bad-guy cartels.

Jeremy Corbyn

Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.

Donald Miller

Mexicans are educating themselves and becoming serious consumers of wine, and sommeliers in Mexico City are starting to take notice.

Kelly Macdonald

We have over 300 guys playing, it's becoming very popular. I think we'll eventually start a women's league for the senior players.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe.

Wisconsin has historically done great things because we felt we were all in it together. But our economic growth is becoming more and more concentrated on our wealthiest families. Wisconsin's legacy of equality is in serious trouble when we lose this feeling.

Greg Collins

Wireless LAN in the consumer space is definitely moving toward becoming a platform for triple-play services from the service providers.

That was something that was becoming popular in neighborhoods at the time.

That was also when I started thinking about breaking out on my own or taking a shot at becoming chief of a hospital. I decided on private practice.

That was just an unbelievable shot. I mean, it was perfect. He's only a sophomore but he's obviously a really good player. He's becoming kind of a go-to player.

Mark Victor Hansen

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

Ben Bernanke

In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.

Mahatma Gandhi

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

Victor Koo

Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.

The online world is becoming a destination in and of itself -- and that has potentially big consequences for the way people spend their time.

Bob Graham

The premature conclusion of our presidential campaign was a great disappointment, ... However, it was not without its rewards. I am proud of the issues we raised, which are now becoming the central issues of debate in the presidential campaign.