Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jaret Wright

We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Daniel Merideth

We always have concerns about him coming to work but he loved his work so much, he was going to do it until he retired.

Pete Hertler

We always have a good time coming to this tournament. We played well and fought hard in our games. The wind made it tough on the hitters, so pitching and defense took over.

Jerry Green

We always enjoyed the picnic, especially when it was in Bushkill Park and had the rides for the kids. This year we had to hold off because of the disaffiliation situation. With the new officers coming in, we didn't have time. But we'll go back to it next year.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Harry Reid

We're going to reform Washington, ... After years of Republican scandals and abuses of power, it's a big task. But the American people are demanding change.

Tipper Gore

This is a national tragedy and a public health problem demanding national leadership.

David Payne

They still say it's a very demanding test, and it is.

Greg Robinson

Football is a tough, demanding game. If you can't laugh a little, it can really wear on you. If I didn't laugh, I'd cry. You've got to be able to enjoy what you're doing. Whenever you can find a moment to lighten up a little, it's good. Our players are understanding how to do that.

Jim Folkman

It's the right thing to do. We're responding to the marketplace, which is demanding more green products and a healthier environment.

Joel Kinnaman

It's technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It's an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these 'Transformers' monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.

Roberto Heras

It's a race I rode just once but I liked it very much. It's a very nice race. I think it has a very demanding mountainous part, then the time trials are not too long. It's a race I liked the year I went.

Roberto Heras

Its a race I rode just once but I liked it very much, ... Its a very nice race. I think it has a very demanding mountainous part, then the time trials are not too long. Its a race I liked the year I went.

Brad Holmes

It's a horse - vocally, it's quite demanding - but it's not out of their league.

Elina Kazan

We're making every effort to offer jobs to displaced employees.

J. C. Watts

We're doing it on a case-by-case basis. We'll be happy to be of service to any Louisiana or Mississippi student displaced as a result of the hurricane,

Paul Sarbanes

Any person or family displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina ... could get a temporary housing voucher. This is without regard to their income situation, ... It recognizes the storm hit rich and poor alike, and this is an effort to give them some immediate, short-term help so they can move out of the situation in which they find themselves.

Kris Janowski

We are very far away from returning refugees to Kosovo or returning displaced people within the province to their original homes because, as we speak, people are still being expelled from Kosovo.

Ryan Taylor

We didn't want to hinder the higher-education process for displaced students, ... Wherever they're going to go, it's going to help them.

Rick Perry

enact a housing program that gives families and individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina the leverage to secure a long-term residence in their home state of Louisiana, or the location of their choice.

Judith Owens

There's just never been anything like this before, with so many displaced people, and they're going to be displaced for so long,

Jim Bell

There's nothing more important in the wake of images of displaced people than to try to give people their homes back. It seemed like a natural.

Michael Gorman

What displaced people desperately need it is knowledge and information, and that's what public libraries do.

Richard Blumenthal

The permit is issued to the national entity Andersen, and its actions, regardless of where they take place, are relevant to Andersen's fitness to practice in Connecticut,

Vince Sweeney

We are pleased to be acknowledged as a national leader in this area. Over the years, people have worked very hard to make things happen. You're never done. It's an ongoing process. But we think we've made progress and its' nice to have an external entity recognize the progress.

Mark Hatfield

It's a process by which the airlines, the carriers, actually are required to go through a series of steps to identify and know and vet the shippers so that there's not any kind of mysterious entity out there,

Larry Stone

Any for-profit entity of (Google's) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share.

Pam Thompson

Any medical entity would prefer him not to do things like this.

Nancy Umstead

Sometimes it's the waiting game. It may not happen the first time. If that entity or being doesn't want to leave or want us to be there, then it may not reveal itself.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind is, of what stuff it is made; whether it is an entity or just a process; whether it is substantial, or just dreamlike. And unless you know the nature of the mind, you will not be able to solve any problems of your life.

Bruce Schneier

You have to make the entity in the position to solve the problem, responsible for the problem. Otherwise, it doesn't get solved.

Richard Cecil

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

Akshay Kumar

Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Chris Adrian

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.

Chita Rivera

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

Edward James Olmos

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

Edward Hirsch

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

Dayo Okeniyi

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Charles Dickens

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

Charles Dickens

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

Charles Dickens

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.

Charles Dickens

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

Charles Dickens

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind...

Charles Dickens

Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

Charles Simmons

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Charles Stross

Biggest influence: my mother.

John Banks

Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough.

James Jordan

It's been real positive for us to have the parents being mandated to come with their sons and daughters,

Wendy McGonigal

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Deb Trine

A lot of people who aren't parishioners or parents come out every year. It's a fun?filled day.

Wanda Bethea

They're superb. That's really a tribute to the parents and teachers.

Nisha Singhania

As a girl, you never spoke to your parents. They spoke to you.

Doug Horn

I've always been told by parents how well our team handles these competitions.

Matt Ward

Sometimes you come out there and it's just your parents in the stands.

David Stewart

Some will still be around because they have parents with robust businesses.

John Noel

It's one thing to provide someone with a job,

Sally Roth

They are provided with that, other than that they have to come up with the rest.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Leonard Edelstein

Once we got the roads in, we had to provide a place for them to stay.

Mohammad Khatami

I ... voice Iran's readiness to provide relief supplies to the quake-stricken people,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

Scott Laningham

They are actually providing the service; we just provided them the location.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Chester Jourdan

They don't have the resources to do that nor, unless we get that supplemental (federal) money, will (they ever) have the resources to do it.

David Straus

It would put a strain on the resources big-time.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Darryl Franklin

We all know there is not the resources and wherewithal to do all the things in the plan.

Scott Adams

Failure is a resource that can be managed,

Tony Robbins

It's not about the resources you have available. It's about the resourcefulness you have within you.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Al Stewart

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Akio Morita

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Colfer

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Tom Davies

could not have been in his system the day he testified.

Jason Tapp

We got a lot of work done during break. They really used the system well. They really trust each other now.

Clare Short

There's not enough movement. We've got a system that is completely stuck,

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.