Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Sugar

I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.

Enzo Ferrari

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

Eric Idle

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

Blake McIver Ewing

When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.

Barbara Block

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

The real prize at the Tate is becoming a trustee. It's worth far more money.

Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.

Frank Abagnale

I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father.

Cesar Millan

Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

David Harewood

I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.

Cherie Blair

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

Charlie Kimball

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.

Huston Smith

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

Colm Toibin

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

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.

David Whyte

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

Frans Lanting

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.

Christopher Nolan

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

We believe that you should be able to freeze your credit before you become a victim when you think you're at risk of becoming a victim.

Sergey Lavrov

We often hear from some countries that Russia is becoming strong and unpredictable. But this is not the case. In the 1990s, when the Commonwealth of Independent states was disintegrating and there were fears of Russia breaking up too, some people in the West said they wanted a strong and united Russia. Now we are here. They should be grateful.

Ryan Holmes

While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy makingmistakes and becoming superior.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Johann Koss

Winning medals is very important. But the Olympic Games is a combination. Becoming the best in the world at your sport doesn't mean you can't be compassionate and have good sportsmanship.

With a bit of instruction, it's much easier to catch a wave than it looks. But most wave riders will tell you that becoming a great surfer is a lifetime pursuit.