Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmi Simpson

There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely different financially. But theatre is the only place where you get to actually be the character, and nobody is going to come around and change it later.

There are short-term questions to be sure -- the impact of changes in residential housing markets and the prospects for inflation are two -- but, overall, the economy in 2006 seems likely to be very well-behaved.

Ian Hislop

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

David D. Burns

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

Danielle Panabaker

I would love a little bit of a change.

Francis Picabia

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

Francis Maude

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

Dee Dee Myers

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Hilary Mantel

If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

Henry Petroski

Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.

Henry Petroski

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

Herschel Walker

I wouldn't change anything about my past, because it's made me who I am today. You have to remember: You need to crack some eggs to make omelettes. And I did crack some eggs.

Al Franken

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

Amanda Peet

When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.

Diane Paulus

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.

Charlie Pierce

The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.

Chellie Pingree

The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.

Clare Balding

I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.

Colin Mochrie

Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?

Donna Karan

I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.

Douglas Coupland

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

Douglas Coupland

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

Donella Meadows

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Dee Dee Myers

The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House.

You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.

Hugh Laurie

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.

Howard Rheingold

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

Howard Rheingold

Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change.

Hill Harper

I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with.

Gail Sheehy

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

Gary Johnson

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

Francis Ford Coppola

'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.