Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Chris Bell

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Craig Smith

is like the mad cow calling the herd rabid.

Mary Berry

They already feel mistreated. By calling them refugees, I think, makes them feel less American.

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Carol Greider

Normal levels of telomerase didn't lengthen short telomeres in our mice, so the longer the telomeres are to start with, the longer transplanted stem cells will be able to divide and the more likely the transplant is to succeed.

John Gurdon

Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.

Paul Carter

Sometimes you have to leave empty cells to separate the groups. That cuts down your capacity.

Michael Kotlikoff

These cells have to die, because if they didn't the heart would not function properly.

Paul Transier

I see people now, like never before, talking on their cell phone and doing dumbbell curls.

Ken Holland

I've called his cell number, the hotel. ... I've not gotten a hold of him.

Joshua Roman

I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.

Lisa Loeb

I use my cell phone as much as I can-I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy.

Steve Frasher

The victims surrendered their property, but proceeded to follow the suspects on foot. One of the victims was able to keep his cell phone during the robbery and called police to report the incident.

Kirk Douglas

Because I love you, I will be checking up on you, ... You have honored me and I thank all of you.

Cliff Floyd

I don't have to do anything. Nothing. Just follow up with her and watch what I eat and drink a lot of water. There are little things you have going on that you have to monitor. I'm just happy we can move on and that we were able to get a hold of this, as far as checking myself. I'm relieved.

Judy White

If the rain keeps up like this, we might have some more people checking in.

Brendan Witt

The more time and space he has, the more he can make plays. You have to take that away from him, try to shut him down. But he's really good. It's also going to take a whole checking line and four or five guys doing their jobs.

Bill White

It seems to me he should have been doing it the last three years. Now is a little late to start checking on his evidence.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.

Simon Helberg

We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

Some people thought the hurricane season was over. It's not.

Mark Goodman

It was the (strangest) hurricane we've seen in a long time.

E. B. White

Even if there's no damage, it's going to take at least two weeks for refineries to come back. It's at least as serious as Hurricane Ivan, which we had last year. And it took six months to get production back to normal in that case.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Michael Fish

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

Matt King

One of the recommendations is you may need to water the trees more after a storm or hurricane for quite a while until it's able to put new roots out.

Kerry Emanuel

I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now ... (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.

Rob Young

I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina, ... It's laughable to think it could have been manmade.

Dennis Kucinich

the United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Argus Hamilton

Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Ayelet Waldman

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Atticus Shaffer

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

Brian Sandoval

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Brian K. Vaughan

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Al Franken

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

Bar Refaeli

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

Cory Monteith

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

Doug Liman

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

Dylan Lauren

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

Douglas Adams

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Douglas Adams

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Dorothy Day

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

Christopher Moore

Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

Emilio Zebadua

The story of this storm is not over yet.

Joe Farmer

Tune in to the storm in the morning.

Thomas Fuller

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Kathleen Blanco

We will weather this storm as we have weathered Katrina.

Vernon Howard

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

Tobias Smollett

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Neil Gaiman

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

Marcus Garvey

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Max Lucado

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Sergei Lavrov

Everything will be watched during the New Year's.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Johnny Damon

It's going to be a very watched weekend.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Billy Laird

We watched film and had a workout in the weight room. I don't like to do it, but we're going to have to do it two more times.

Gary Johnson

I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Joe Balogh

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.

Bill Shankly

Denis, it's you, ... Where have you been? We have been worried about you.

Jon Corzine

a little nervous, a little worried but confident.

Alicia Keys

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

Carl Krauser

I don't think we have anything to be too worried about.

James Blake

I feel like I am getting better every week. I'm not worried about my ranking, I'm just worried about getting better.

Ed Comeau

We're not worried about the history. We're not worried about the future.

David Fuhrer

We started out sluggish. But they are just cool. They had it under control. I think I worried more than they did.

Mohamed El-Erian

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

Ben Broussard

But right now, all I'm worried about is right now. I just want to get to the postseason.