Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Flint

The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

Eddie Campbell

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

Eric Whitacre

When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight.

Eric Whitacre

I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.

Eric Ries

You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process. Process drives culture, not the other way around, so you can't just change the culture, you have to change the system.

John Mellencamp

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.

Louis Garrel

When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.

Louis Garrel

Some people choose their style at the age of 14, but I changed mine all the time.

Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.

Kathryn Harrison

The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.

Kapil Sharma

I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.

Karen Traviss

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.

Karen Abbott

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

Jim Yong Kim

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

We are highly skeptical that you can bring in 2006 systems and attach them to 1938 systems and make it all work, when so much has changed technologically.

Bob McDonnell

Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.

Bill Toomey

I think that money has changed my sport.

Berenice Bejo

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

Bill Gates

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

We were in a series of budget reductions. It was not something we wanted to do. We will stay with the present arrangement. The budget climate really hasn't changed for us.

We were in an open field waiting for the arrival of an official, ... We discussed everything, we interrupted each other and said, 'That thing must be changed and that one's intolerable ... everything's intolerable.'

We were in a delay, but then I changed the setup where it was a three-man delay with our three guards and Durham's guy backed off him a little. That's not the way I would have drawn it up, but it was within what we were trying to do at that point.

We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the testing changed our perspective from looking for one source to looking for multiple sources.

Willa Ford

We are all mindful of the industry environment, the pressure on our suppliers and dealers, unfavorable market share trends, and the fact that our issues in North America are structural rather than cyclical. That is why we remind our people that we will either change ourselves -- or be changed by someone else.

Edward Luck

The reforms on the table really get to the meat of the matter, which is changing an institution envisioned for the post-World War II period to work in a very changed world. The challenge now is that after so much attention to expanding the Security Council, this package sounds like leftovers - when it's really the meat and potatoes of reform.

Shannon Miller

(The referees) made a call that put us on penalty-kill and our whole team knew that we shouldn't be on penalty-kill. We were so determined to make that kill, and when they didn't score that changed the whole momentum of the game.

Bob Woodward

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.

Bo Burnham

I'm happy with what I'm doing. I try not to focus on how I've changed. I just try to focus on what I'm doing now.

Three years later it had changed a lot. That really shocked me.

Herbert Hainer

With these measures, we will create a structure that is geared to the changed conditions within our business, allowing short reaction timelines and improving overall efficiency,

We knew they were going to make a run, and we got out (of) the gate early. We couldn't play all our (starters) the entire 20 minutes of the first half, so we had to make some substitutions and they took advantage. They changed the momentum, and it got them right back into the ball game.

We knew they were going to make a run, and we got out (of) the gate early, ... We couldn't play all our (starters) the entire 20 minutes of the first half, so we had to make some substitutions and they took advantage. They changed the momentum, and it got them right back into the ball game.

Jimmy Moore

When I was a little kid, I fished real worms to catch fish and my nickname was Wormy. The worms also kept the girls away. Then when I discovered girls, I switched to flies thinking the girls would go fishing with me. That didn't work either! Not long after that, I changed my nickname from "WORMY" to "Fly Fishing Man" and started fishing flies. The girls fell all over me, but then I couldn't catch any fish." Moral of the story: "Young Man, Don't Give Up Your Worms Too Soon!