Became Quotes

#1. The first thing that happened was that Helen became an invalid - we know now that there was nothing wrong with her, but Livilla had given her the choice of taking to her bed as if she were ill or taking to her bed because she was ill.

Robert Graves

#2. Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.

Anushka Sharma

#3. From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

Allen West

#4. The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#5. Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with also became so frightened, she couldn't give me the next line. I just walked off stage.

Maria Karnilova

#6. My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.

Julie Salamon

#7. I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

Ed Rollins

#8. I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

Leonard Nimoy

#9. At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then ... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

Tadashi Yanai

#10. In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

Roger Scruton

#11. In her view, there were three
options for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If you
were ugly, you became a nun. If you were beautiful and stupid, or
ugly and dishonorable, you became a whore.

Nenia Campbell

#12. If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?

Mary Szybist

#13. The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.

I.E. Castellano

#14. Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

Julia Stiles

#15. No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

Deepak Chopra

#16. As soon as I starting making YouTube videos, I received so much positive feedback from the online community and a demand for more content. As time went on, my filming schedule became more consistent, and it made sense to hire some help and upgrade my equipment.

Rosanna Pansino

#17. God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

Jose Saramago

#18. With me and basketball, it became part of me.

Mike Krzyzewski

#19. If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#20. Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.

Clive Davis

#21. I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves.

Kris Kidd

#22. I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

John Waters

#23. The clay of White Fang had been molded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind.

Jack London

#24. Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#25. It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

David Chipperfield

#26. He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.

Ronald Harwood

#27. I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

Dick Dale

#28. The moment my lips found her body, we quickly became an erupting volcano. Hot and fast. Very fast. Fast enough that I would have given her my virginity.

Katie McGarry

#29. It became clear that this man, although supposedly my enemy, was in fact just another human being, an ordinary person like myself.

Dalai Lama XIV

#30. The longer he marched, the more convinced Peter became that things were indeed hopeless and that an elephant was a ridiculous answer to any question- but a particularly ridiculous answer to a question posed by the human heart.

Kate DiCamillo

#31. New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.

Jon Stewart

#32. You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#33. My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

Bill Keller

#34. We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.

Cesar Millan

#35. His voice became louder as he

Marion Chesney

#36. I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that ... rock music became a huge economic force.

Mike Love

#37. When I was nine - before I grew up and became a scientist - I thought I knew everything, or at least I wanted to know everything, and in my mind there was no difference between the two. At

Jodi Picoult

#38. I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Christopher Hitchens

#39. When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

Robert Redford

#40. The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

Noah Baumbach

#41. There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Sherman Alexie

#42. That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#43. My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

Dylan Lauren

#44. It was true what people said, that when one became old (and how sneakily that happened, how sly time was), memories of the long-ago past, repressed for decades, were suddenly bright and clear. A

Kate Morton

#45. She became a question mark. An unfinished puzzle. An intricate crossword. An impervious shooting star yet to determine her course.

Neetha Joseph

#46. In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

Annalee Newitz

#47. For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.

Lauren Oliver

#48. I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

James McCartney

#49. Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

Jill Lepore

#50. And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

W. H. Auden

#51. Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

Andy Partridge

#52. Stupid, stupid, endorphins. Just like that, I became a puddle of erotic hormones, a lovesick teenager in heat.

Jettie Woodruff

#53. So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

Malcolm Wallop

#54. I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

Jason O'Mara

#55. I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on.

Paul Smith

#56. My siren became a temptress with that seductive smile on her lips.

Katie McGarry

#57. It's a funny thing, now; I very often think of my poor wife, but I cannot think of her very much at any one time." "Often, but a little at a time, like poor old Swann," became one of my grandfather's favourite phrases, which he would apply to all kinds of things.

Marcel Proust

#58. The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

Herbert Croly

#59. It was high time that she left behind these silly daydreams, before she became odd and ended up locked in some attic, collecting bits of string and candle wax and muttering.

Laura Kinsale

#60. When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

Michele Bachmann

#61. Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

Bobby McFerrin

#62. The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

Frederick C. Beiser

#63. But age became him as it did the oaks and the cedars.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#64. She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight. I still stood for a moment, looking at the last place I had seen her, being careful not to be routine, while I became the other guy again, the one I was without her.

Robert B. Parker

#65. When you became the love, everyone around you becomes your lover.

Debasish Mridha

#66. I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

Leora Tanenbaum

#67. I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious.

Pierce Brosnan

#68. In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen ...

Hannah Arendt

#69. The monk, Gregory the Great, tells how a nun, in her greed, ate a lettuce without first making the sign of the cross to protect herself against the evil spirits that hide between its leaves, and so she became possessed by a demon. Greetwell

Karen Maitland

#70. Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free.

David Jeremiah

#71. Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

Pete Ploszek

#72. When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

Aly Raisman

#73. So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting.

Gloria Miklowitz

#74. I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#75. Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

Leonard Maltin

#76. In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

Nikolai Gogol

#77. After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.

Alan Brennert

#78. It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!

Terry Crews

#79. My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

Daniel Goldstein

#80. I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.

Ellen DeGeneres

#81. I was quite sure I was crazy, and it was amazing that as soon as I admitted it, I became quite calm. There was nothing I could do about it. I seemed relatively harmless. After

Katherine Paterson

#82. She was floating as the sea of pleasure took her out upon its rising tide and when she became aware of herself again it was to the feel of Zac behind her, supporting her weight by holding her under her arms. (Barely Restrained, 2011)

Brenda Cothern

#83. The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view.

Jack London

#84. We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don't talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.

Ashley Mansour

#85. My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

Henny Youngman

#86. The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

Matthew Bourne

#87. Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Stewart Brand

#88. I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.

Amit Kalantri

#89. But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face.

Amulya Malladi

#90. I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

Witold Gombrowicz

#91. GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

Clement Of Alexandria

#92. You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.

Sara Sheridan

#93. In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

Neil Strauss

#94. {8:9} For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that through his poverty, you might become rich.

The Biblescript

#95. I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

Lyle Lovett

#96. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

Susan B. Anthony

#97. During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.

Damon Knight

#98. We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.

Vint Cerf

#99. I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Vernon L. Smith

#100. The Goddess is the macrocosmic and microcosmic anima, as put in place by Creator. Her existence became necessary in order to give form to Creator's thoughts and therefore ours as well.

Lawren Leo