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.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson’s Column – pigeons dump on you because you’re there.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

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

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

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

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

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

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I’m at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that’s when I’m most myself.

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

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.

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 make art you need to be inspired.

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

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.

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

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.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it’s only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

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

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.

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.

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.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

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.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

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

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

It’s flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it’s not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it’s the only picture you’ve ever made.

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

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

This life is not man’s own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine ‘plot.’

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

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 exists for three weeks, and then it disappears into thin air.

When you make a movie, it’s just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

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 really frustrated.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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

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.

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

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.