(632 quotes found)
“We became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!”
Dakota Fanning
“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist”
Sally Kempton
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
Cary Grant
“The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.Since every Jack became a gentleman,There's many a gentle person made a Jack.”
William Shakespeare
“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
Christopher Hampton
“The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.”
William Langewiesche
“Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.”
George Soros
“[The customers] had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy.”
Sylvan N. Goldman
“[But when the infectious beat of reggaetón, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro-Caribbean beats, became popular on the Spanish-speaking island, many local rappers abandoned standard hip-hop breakbeats.] Latinos are children of la rumba, ... When people play drums it gets our attention right away. When we saw that, we realized there wasn't so much interest in hip-hop here anymore. We started to incorporate the ideas we had doing hip-hop with the base of dancehall and reggae en Español.”
Daddy Yankee
