It becomes an emperor to die standing.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

I need to feel like the work I’m doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get...

What’s nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That’s the fun part.

I’ll have periods when I write and periods when I don’t. But you don’t want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that’s no good. To...

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

I don’t have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that’s ok.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel – and we, ironically, become...

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

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

Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is just one app on the phone.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another – and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It’s like staring at the mirror all day.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it...

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

When you’re little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.

To make a song is a gift, and once it’s done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It’s like a conversation.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can’t predict how the masses will react.