Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yao is not blessed with anything except God-given size and great parents. Everything else has been worked for basketball-wise. There's a lot easier roads to becoming a really, really good player in this league. He had a difficult road, and he made it through his own internal drive to be great.

We're talking about 10 percent of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.

We're talking about 10% of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.

Megan Fox

I want people to know me through the movies I do. I want to be judged on that. If you start becoming famous for your personal life, that's when your career goes away.

Philippe Petit

My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.

We have unmistakable signs that households are becoming more cautious about spending.

Rebecca Solnit

The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.

Scilla Elworthy

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

Paul Hawken

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

Marco Rubio

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

Malala Yousafzai

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

Kofi Annan

Today, the world has taken a step toward becoming a safer and more humane place, ... will have far-reaching implications for both mine-affected and mine-producing countries.

Dennis Hastert

Today, the hopes and dreams of millions of Iraqis are closer to becoming an everyday reality -- a free, democratic government is literally at hand,

Time is becoming a bit of a challenge.

Marina and the Diamonds

You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.

We have known that kids who are overweight or obese have a higher risk for being overweight or obese as adults. But in this paper, we show that even children in the high normal weight range have an elevated risk of becoming overweight or obese as adults.

Jon Anderson

We've been going through some growing pains getting established, but I think it will continue to get better. I could see it becoming very successful.

Helene D. Gayle

As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

We get involved in long-term representation of people. Which means becoming very involved in their lives and offering ongoing representation even when works aren't selling.

We get a lot of browsers. Browsers sometimes end up becoming my best customers.

Tim Hunt

In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end.

Ted Sarandos

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

Larry Coker

We believe Devin would be better served by staying in school and finishing his degree and becoming more proficient as a football player. But we respect his decision.

We are most concerned about thieves getting into unlocked vehicles. People need to get in the habit of locking their car doors, whether they are parked at home or out shopping. They can prevent themselves from becoming victims by taking precautionary measures.

We are making it work. It is becoming an effective people-moving transit system.

Xbox Live really started out as an online gaming service on the path to becoming a major entertainment network. This is the latest chapter the big first step in that mission for us.

The database is becoming a commodity. It is clear Oracle realizes that and is trying to retool itself as a business line vendor like SAP.

The data are becoming ever more important. There's no justification in the data to date to warrant the market to push aggressively for 5.25 percent.

Ashley Montagu

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

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.