Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nouriel Roubini

For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.

Carine Roitfeld

Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

Carine Roitfeld

I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

Cassandra Clare

There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.

Kenneth Oppel

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

We are confirming that Brad Pitt is in the process of becoming the adoptive father of both children.

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.

Jim Miller

We are, like, everywhere. Part of what this (culinary curriculum) is all about is trying to replicate what they'll see in restaurants. They're becoming a lot more comfortable and a lot more self-sufficient.

Alison Moyet

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

Amanda Palmer

People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

Anjelica Huston

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

Wal-Mart is facing a perfect storm of negativity. People are rallying around this movement. It's not just workers. It's rippling out and becoming a real debate about values.

Otto Schily

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.

Karisma Kapoor

Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Diana Quick

When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

Craig T. Nelson

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

CeeLo Green

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

Barbara Ehrenreich

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

Nelson Mandela

You know you are really famous when becoming a comic character,

We did not want one youngster to receive that much money. We felt it was becoming out of proportion.

Jorma Ollila

We didn't see mobility and the Internet becoming such a big thing, in 1995,

Harry Markowitz

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.

We are a country that is becoming vastly overweight, no matter how many diets we come up with,

Dan Gilroy

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.

We're losing our diversity on that campus. The Hispanic population is growing. The black population is not. It's like our system is slowly becoming an all economically disadvantaged school system. We're losing our diversity, and that's not the real world.

We are right on the brink of this season of becoming a serious threat to win the national championship, and I look for us to only improve in the future.

Larry Ellison

We are optimistic about becoming number one in the middleware business,

We are one player, maybe a player and a half, from becoming a major factor.

Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Irving Stone

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

Evangeline Lilly

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.