Top 100 I Changed Quotes
#1. - I used to love you.
- What's changed?
- You.
- No. Now you see me. That's all.
Sarah Kane
#2. We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.
John Oates
#3. Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.
Alan Greenspan
#4. I guess that's the thing about a hero's journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to. I had changed.
Kami Garcia
#5. There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.
Willie Lanier
#6. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.
Malala Yousafzai
#9. My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.
Robin Williams
#10. I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.
EL Seed
#11. I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.
Emiliano Salinas
#12. The bankruptcy wars changed me forever. Even before this grinding battle, I had begun to understand the terrible squeeze on the middle class. But it was this fight that showed me how badly the playing field was tilted and taught me that the squeeze wasn't accidental.
Elizabeth Warren
#13. This game has changed. The rules are no longer the same, but I don't have the manual. He does, and I need guidance on where to go from here.
Georgia Cates
#14. - I know he made you a promise, but circumstances have changed.
-The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.
Frank Underwood
#15. Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#16. I changed his name after I saw this old movie at the Snark. It's called Nosferatu, and it's the original Dracula story. It's ten times as scary as the version you see on television. The guy who plays the vampire is really bizarre.
Daniel Pinkwater
#17. I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'.
Kevin Hearne
#18. The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.
Ruben Studdard
#19. Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
Elliott Erwitt
#20. I don't have paparazzi following me. Because I'm a human character, it's different. The vampires get a lot of attention, and then the werewolves, and then the humans. It hasn't really changed that much for me.
Tinsel Korey
#21. I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
John Hodgman
#22. I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. August Richards
#23. You know what? Don't even worry about it," I said. "Cory Wheeler already asked me. I can tell him I changed my mind."
"Who the hell is Corky Wheeler?
Jenny Han
#24. I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and the professional responsibility that surveyors bear - something that hasn't changed much at all in hundreds of years.
Mark Mason
#25. The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.
Jeff Daniels
#26. What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make.
Ben Carson
#27. CinderHeart: You're the one that changed every thing.
LoinBlaze: No. This was all decided before I was born.
Erin Hunter
#28. Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.
Brandon Sanderson
#29. When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.
Skylar Grey
#30. One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.
Lee Radziwill
#31. And I realized that even if she didn't know it yet, everything had changed for her. She wouldn't stay here now, no matter what happened with Will Traynor. She had an air about her, a new air of knowledge, of things seen, places she had been. My sister finally had new horizons.
Jojo Moyes
#32. We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.
John Paul Caponigro
#33. And he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#34. No one else would get it, Amanda. No one else would understand how one fucking night with a virtual stranger changed me. How I never wanted to be close to anybody my entire life. Not until I met you.
Jay McLean
#35. My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
Assata Shakur
#36. I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
John Mellencamp
#37. You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.
Sarah Dessen
#38. From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.
Justina Chen
#39. Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
Bob Woodward
#40. I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
Steve Jobs
#41. I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
Adam Lambert
#42. Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.
Rokia Traore
#43. There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.
Jo Brand
#44. I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
Chuck Feeney
#45. The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.
Pat Barker
#46. I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.
Robert Graves
#47. When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.
Curtis Stone
#48. I hate to wish bad things on you, son, but I hope you get the privilege someday of having no one to lean on but God. It changes a person. It sure changed me.
Gina Holmes
#49. When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
Flea
#50. My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
Iman
#51. I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
Emily Bronte
#52. 97. I approached the symbol, with its layers of meaning, but when I touched it, it changed into only a beautiful princess.
98. I threw the beautiful princess headfirst down the mountain to my acquaintances.
99. Who could be relied upon to deal with her.
Donald Barthelme
#53. People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#54. My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.
Jill Sobule
#55. I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
Christopher Hampton
#56. I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job."
I almost swerved into oncoming traffic.
Richelle Mead
#57. The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.
Antonin Scalia
#58. Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
George Carlin
#59. I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life.
Aisha Hinds
#60. I changed my mind. I don't want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker."
"There are people who do that," Duff said. He'd barely sipped his rum.
"Really? What do you call them?"
"Alcoholics.
Libba Bray
#61. I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.
Shiloh Walker
#62. An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
Matthew Barney
#63. I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.
Billy Graham
#64. Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
Layne Staley
#65. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.
Kenneth Clark
#66. The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
Buzz Osborne
#67. No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And, indeed, experience seems to urge a different conclusion. Sometimes a man undergoes such changes that I should hardly have said he was the same man.
Baruch Spinoza
#68. I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who has changed the way I think.
Terry Pratchett
#69. Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.
Ashwin Sanghi
#70. I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
Barbara Kingsolver
#71. I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed.
Zack W. Van
#72. These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.
Scott Adams
#73. I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album ... so I took it as a sign to leave.
Graham Coxon
#74. I've been with this young lady for about two years now, and my life changed. I don't even think that way no more. I feel good, too, that I'm changed. Now I feel regular. I feel like I'm supposed to.
Mike Epps
#75. When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.
Billy Porter
#76. I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
Daniel Tammet
#77. The day my life changed forever ... The day I first saw you.
Nicholas Sparks
#78. You came along and changed everything. I don't want to be some guy you're fooling around with anymore, Rylann. I want to be with you all the way.
Julie James
#79. What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
Hans Rosling
#80. Thanksgiving isn't the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people you're connected to. I guess the truth is, it all boils down to family. Right?
Diane Keaton
#81. I don't think the way I look at myself has changed.
Scott Wolf
#82. Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it's not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don't want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
I.M. Pei
#83. I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
Matt Taibbi
#84. I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.
Edward Ruscha
#85. He just stared at me.
"Stop looking at me like that," I begged.
Immediately he changed the angle at which he looked at me.
I wanted to scream at him.
Katherine Pine
#86. I began with love and prayer," Moneo said. "I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it.
Frank Herbert
#87. And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.
Ryu Murakami
#88. One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures ... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.
John James Audubon
#89. I've changed so much. Look at me! I'm eating scones on a bed with a pirate!
Lara Hays
#90. Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting ... I'm not sure why.
Roger Bart
#91. The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.
Leslie Jones
#92. Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.
Warren Ellis
#93. The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)
Albert Einstein
#94. I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.
John Major
#95. Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.
Irwin Shaw
#96. I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
Kenneth Koch
#97. In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
Tammin Sursok
#98. I've done four other films since 'Submarine,' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work; I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.
Craig Roberts
#99. When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.
David Suchet
#100. My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.'
Steve Carell
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