Top 90 Switched Quotes

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That’s a good thing.

When I had the idea for ‘Shopaholic’, it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, just full-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, it felt just like writing my first book again – it was really liberating.

I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.

On the aircraft carrier under my command, where the average age of sailors was 19 and a half, you could see accountability in action at all times. You especially saw it when an order was given that a plane about to launch suddenly must be switched out for another and kept on board.

Here’s my take on Andy Kaufman… For Kaufman, comedy was a skill that was open for examination. He didn’t just do comedy, he deconstructed it like it was a transistor set. He pulled out all the wires and switched them around, often in front of our very eyes.

Communication is something that I find if don’t do, I will go missing, I won’t be fully focused. If I’m constantly giving messages to the defenders not only do they know where they are but I am switched on and in the right position. It all links together.

It’s hard when something’s bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It’d be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, ‘Oh, God, what’s going on?’

Most people who know me know I’m not switched on all the time. I don’t like to be like that in real life, because it’s draining.

Regardless of injuries, we would get onstage, and as soon as we were up there it was like, bam! You were hit with an incredible force. The band came alive on stage like someone had switched us on.

Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.

I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn’t working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.

I just want everyone I am playing with to be fully switched on, really on it. You don’t have to be the best player in the team to have an effect on the players around you.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what’s important.

I think it’s good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.

There’s Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switched to Qatar and Bahrain and other countries. Yes, I do have a problem with that.

When I was on the court, I played. When I trained, I trained hard. But as soon as that thing was over, I switched off and enjoyed my life.

I’m beyond excited to join the cast of ‘Switched At Birth’ and to be part of such a great show on a great network.

In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under the rule of womankind and only switched to patriarchy at the dawn of civilization.

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

I was valedictorian of my class until I switched to a neighboring high school, but I maintained the grades and involvement. Switching schools was tough.

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

When I glare, I don’t see it as aggression. I have just got such passion to get wickets. I don’t ever say anything, I just have a look and see if I can get their mind concentrating on other things and get them outside their bubble. I like to get them switched on, have a look and get in a bit of a battle.

Most of us walk around with our ears switched off because so much noise is unpleasant.

I switched from ‘Bigg Boss’ to ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and was very happy to see Amitabh Bachchan come back on television with such a fun and interesting show.

I always wanted to be a pilot, though somewhere down the line switched to computers.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

It’s not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.

I did my first series lead back in 1991 on a show called ‘Reasonable Doubts’ and have done many shows with other actors who are deaf. But ‘Switched at Birth’ is the first TV show where there is more than one actor who is deaf or hard of hearing and who are series regulars.

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion – each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don’t begin to construct the sites faster.

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched ‘Living Marxism’ magazine in the late eighties.

My feeling is that no series should run over five years, but I’m glad that ‘Bonanza’ went as long as it did. I do resent the fact that in the last year, the network switched us from our old slot on Sunday nights to Tuesdays without much of a promotional campaign.

I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater, I got into work mode.

I started off playing rugby league as well as union. I switched between fly-half and wing, but I preferred to play fly-half. I liked to be at the heart of everything. I liked to be involved.

I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and I’ve been doing that ever since.

I didn’t want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn’t know what you did with a bachelor’s in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

About 1998, my best friend, Katey Red, was the first transsexual male to come out with bounce music. And I background Katey for about two years. And then that’s when the game totally switched when me and Katey jumped in it.

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

I went from basically filming in my bedroom by myself, filming some funny videos, and then overnight, I switched into filming in some studios and some warehouses and family homes. I started filming with directors and producers and editors, and there were so many people in the room, so it was definitely weird.

In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.

Music and art well and truly saved my life really – the light switched on when I discovered art.

It’s difficult to learn to play these different disabled characters – Campbell in ‘Switched At Birth’ was paralysed from the waist down – but it’s nice to be able to step into their world and live in these characters’ shoes and to be able to play them, because it gives you a different look at life.

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it’s a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn’t have the flavor.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

My husband and I had a very pragmatic agreement right from the start: whoever earns more works full time. So we switched the classic roles.