Top 100 Is About Quotes
#1. I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
Taylor Swift
#2. The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying "eat all your vegetables". Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn't want and certainly didn't deserve, and he did it anyway.
Rod Rosenbladt
#3. To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment in life that is an alternative to the patterns of manipulation and greed that dominate our current culture.
John William Willis-Bund
#4. Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.
Katherine Moennig
#5. It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.
Elia Suleiman
#6. The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
Jerry Brown
#7. I love the fact that in the cancer universe you have a lot of money going towards research, but this is about cancer support. It allows people to receive information to facilitate their healing. It's a revelation and just phenomenal.
Billy Zane
#8. By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
Jason Mraz
#9. I am at a climbing area called the Wendenstock in Switzerland. This area has some of the best quality multi-pitch climbing I have seen on limestone. There is about a two-hour approach on one of the steepest grass slopes I have ever seen. The setting is amazing.
Tommy Caldwell
#10. Patriotism is about improving the lives of one's fellow citizens and improving one's country's contribution to the world. In the conservative moral hierarchy, our country is taken as simply better than other countries. This is jingoism, not true patriotism, which rests on progressive values.
George Lakoff
#11. Prayer is about real-world concerns, spoken in real-world language. God does not want us to shift into a stained-glass prayer voice to address Him.
David Jeremiah
#12. For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do more stuff in that. But ultimately, what I consider myself to be is an actor, and the more variety I can play will continue to round me out.
Brian Baumgartner
#13. Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
David Bowie
#14. I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It is about the Declaration of Independence and the relevance of the document today. And it will be fun and engaging - I promise!
Linda Goldstein Knowlton
#15. Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.
Carlos Gavito
#16. What is about women that they just go right for the guy that repulses them?
Alison Brie
#17. I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni
#18. When you see someone do what no one else is doing take notice. Something truly special is about to happen.
Not only will they be lifted up, they will lift up those around them as well. That is called leadership.
Tom Krause
#19. What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.
Louise Bourgeois
#20. [W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth ... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven!
Mike Huckabee
#21. Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying.
David Wheeler
#22. Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.
Simon Sinek
#23. Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. Fashion is about so much more than just a pretty pair of pumps or the perfect hemline. For so many people across the country, it is a calling, it is a career, and it's a way they feed their families.
Michelle Obama
#25. This song goes out to the girl who is my everything. I'm not an easy man to love, and music is about the best way I know how to express my feelings to her. This is called Faithfully.
Michelle A. Valentine
#26. He was the most complicated beautiful mess I'd ever seen and if this is what you feel, when you've met someone that is about to change your entire world; than I dare not hide myself away from it.
Nikki Rowe
#29. The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene.
Ford Madox Ford
#30. We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.
Marge Piercy
#31. There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
Fred Durst
#32. Family cannot be determined by blood. Family is determined by actions. Family is about trust. Family is about acceptance. Family is about love. True family is earned, not born.
Sarah Brianne
#33. Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
Barney Oliver
#34. Unless I miss my guess, Yolly is about to become obsessed with horses. It's practically a stage on Piaget's developmental profile.
James K. Morrow
#35. How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
Kathryn Harrison
#36. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
Rudy Giuliani
#37. And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia.
Paul Mason
#38. Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.
Henna Inam
#39. Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
Saul Leiter
#40. I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.
Donnie Yen
#41. Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.
Kim Anderson
#42. The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.
Rob Bell
#43. Montessori is about a kid with a stick, digging a hole in the mud - hands dirty, engaged, fascinated, uninterrupted.
Trevor Eissler
#44. Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
Lee Iacocca
#45. The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.
Alexander Suvorov
#46. God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army ... God is about to unloose a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit of an unprecedented magnitude ... He is looking for individuals who will be 'dread champions' for his cause.
John Wimber
#47. They should be beautiful, but I know what they are. They are not beautiful, because beauty is about grace and love and hope. They are all about need.
Carrie Jones
#48. Sales is the most important aspect of a company, which in turn is about how well you treat your customer and stay ahead of your customer's requirements.
Mark Cuban
#49. Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
Eddi Reader
#50. In January 2006, Phantom of The Opera broke the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, overtaking Cats and reminding us what real entertainment is about: candles, dry ice, big hair, and the sort of synthesized chord progressions only achieved by a collapse at the keyboard.
Emma Brockes
#51. Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.
John Branch
#52. Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ... or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
Aaron Levie
#53. Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
Jerry Coleman
#54. Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.
Christopher Bram
#55. The core of what Google is about is bringing information to people.
Sundar Pichai
#56. I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.
Conor McPherson
#57. Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.
Shepard Fairey
#58. My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?
Hilary Swank
#59. Success is about having more options. More the options, more the success.
Krishna Saagar
#60. The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
Ben Nicholson
#61. Jesus doesn't make up the difference. Jesus makes all the difference. Grace is not about filling gaps. It is about filling us.
Brad Wilcox
#62. Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.
Narendra Modi
#63. Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.
Joe Thomas
#64. I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.
P.D.Q. Bach
#65. Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
Wilfrid Sheed
#66. Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much. Maybe I wear too much pink. But please remember I can rip your throat out if I need to. And also know that I am not a hooker. That was a long, long time ago.
Alan Ball
#68. 'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.
Darren Star
#69. I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
Otis Blackwell
#70. I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.
Carl Andre
#71. This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
Harry Reasoner
#72. Simply put, politics is about "who gets what, when, and
Daniel Shapiro
#73. The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
James M. Barrie
#74. It is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away
Isabel Gillies
#75. This story is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover themselves with layers and layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside.
Cecelia Ahern
#76. There is a magic moment, during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is about to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer [read bond trader] will make that moment his own, possessing the treasure for a magic microsecond, taking a little of it, passing it on.
Michael Lewis
#77. Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.
Andrew Mason
#78. And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
John Perkins
#79. Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.
Heidi Baker
#80. Spiritual maturing is about releasing people to be whoever they are - even if you don't approve or like it.
Jacob Glass
#81. Not everything we do in this world is about us, Panther. Sometimes we have do things for other reasons. Sometimes we've got to forget about ourselves and help others. If not, what's the point?
Terry Brooks
#82. I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
Wade Boggs
#83. It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?
Clare Boothe Luce
#84. Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.
Costa Georgiadis
#85. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.
Jason Gann
#86. Building a boat is about ten times more work than you think it could possibly be.
David C. Powell
#87. Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
Kin Hubbard
#88. But above all, marriage is about wanting to share your life with someone you really, truly love but staying with your spouse instead, no matter how much they irritate and ignore you.
Mrs. Stephen Fry
#89. It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.
Derek R. Audette
#90. I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
Vikram Seth
#91. The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You can't have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. My spiritual connection is about embracing everything around me. We're all the same. There are no boundaries ...
Donna Karan
#93. So much in life is about almosts, not quites.
Alice Sebold
#94. And you know, that's another reason I named her Coco. Because to me, chocolate is about indulging in things that give you pleasure. And what's the point of life if you can't find joy?
Kate Klise
#96. Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.
Neal Shusterman
#97. Accountability is not about blame, it's not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you've made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.
Claire Fontaine
#98. Capability view is for the strategic re-think of "what," and process view is about the "executable knowing "how.
Pearl Zhu
#99. The message behind every brand that's plus size is about making a woman feel confident in any shape or size. Now straight size, it's all about the signature brand and how to look good in that one brand, and not necessarily how to look good for yourself.
Hayley Hasselhoff
#100. In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.
Mick Dodson
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