Becomes Quotes

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.