Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing physically, you're changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard.

You are changing the rural environment of the area. That is what is going away ? piece by piece.

Madonna Ciccone

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

Joel Madden

We're definitely not jaded. We never really considered ourselves serious musicians who are changing music. We're just kids who wanted to be in a band.

Paul Cayard

We're definitely fully into it, but we're not changing who we are. We're still professional sailors.

We're changing the way people work. It's fostering a culture of working more collaboratively, sharing control of a common resource and fostering trust between them.

We're changing the theme from welcoming in 2006 to the start of a Giants' run that takes them all the way to the Super Bowl. Let's just say the decorations will be a lot bluer than they would normally be.

We're a factory, we're not Sony, but the world is changing and we'll do whatever retailers require.

We really won't be changing a whole lot. We just have to get our defense more intense, relax on offense and play our game.

Phil Jackson

Well, this is something I never thought could possibly happen, to be standing back again, less than one year after having been part of the dissolution of this organization and the changing of the guard, so to speak, and feeling so comfortable stepping back into this position,

I would imagine that members were getting weary. Six weeks is a very long time and a lot of people were financially stressed. We took the fight to the company but they were very firm about not changing the health insurance proposals.

Microsoft has said the decision could hurt the overall economy; it's something that's been followed like no other case; and its happening in an industry that's changing very rapidly where justice delayed is justice denied, ... All the elements are in place for them to take it.

Micron's products, customers and the solutions we enable have evolved to a point where changing parts of our organization will continue to increase our presence and competitiveness in the global marketplace.

Microsoft is obliged to comply with the remedies which were imposed in the commission's 2004 decision, nothing more nothing less. We are not moving the goalposts as has been suggested, we are not changing our demands.

Laura Brown

We haven't ruled out making new rules or changing existing rules. But rule-making is a lengthy process.

Patrick Murphy

We joked about it often. It was just by downplaying ourselves and changing our hair color and such,

Patrick Murphy

We joked about it often, but it really was just by downplaying ourselves and changing our hair color and such,

You just go out and play your game. You can't think about 'What do I need to do to make the team.' All you can do is your best. If that's what's going to do it, that's what's going to do it. If you try changing yourself, you're going to screw your game up. You've got to try to enjoy the experience and have fun.

Bill Gates

Windows and the consumer electronics industry are changing dramatically, people live in a world with more digital content and information than ever before.

That was kind of a turning point. It was one of those momentum changing plays.

We haven't been looking at new technologies and other things because we were concerned about impairment. Now we're looking at how Americans are changing how they recreate.

Brad Smith

We have now responded to more than 100 requests from the Commission. We continue working quickly to meet the Commission's new and changing demands. Yet every time we make a change, we find that the Commission moves the goal post and demands another change.

Beck

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

Edward Kennedy

The president has moved the goal posts. Americans understand changing the rules of the game; they don't like it,

We know some of their movements. But we are not experts and the climate is changing quickly, making it more difficult to assess.

Unfortunately, the authorities, including this one, are pressuring them into changing their mind.

Rain Phoenix

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

We're all somewhat disturbed and quite surprised to see this information, ... I think it means we're changing a culture and a history of practice within the Auditor's Office and the city.

Kwame Kilpatrick

Other than the Rev. Martin Luther King, no other person has had such a role in changing (the African-American) vision of our community and our country,

Our 200 free relay should be doing a lot better. We improved on it by about a second, so it was really good. Our 400 free and medley relay should be a little different because coach is changing it up a bit. It was still overall good.

It doesn't surprise me. Again, I'm not saying it doesn't surprise me because it is Tennessee. I am just not convinced that that sort of special treatment -- changing of grades, making sure kids are eligible as opposed to really educating them -- isn't going on at a lot more places than Tennessee. I don't think Tennessee is unique in that regard.

David Perlmutter

The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression.

The last two hurricane seasons have been wakeup calls. Clearly, the world is changing and we must respond.