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.

Katrina Szish

It's not just that everyone looks very good, but very safe. They all go for the same look. Rachel Zoe is incredibly talented, but she styles 12 people who could all swap clothes.

Gil Bellows

It's the role of a lifetime and she's incredibly good.

Oliver Kahn

It was so incredibly lucrative that I really had to think about it for a long time.

Douglas Conant

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Sophia Amoruso

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

Sara Rue

What woman doesn't want to feel comfortable in a swimsuit? It's incredibly empowering.

Beth Tocci

Our serve receive was huge. Our kids passed incredibly well.

Peter Phelps

(Spence) is vastly different in that he's very cavalier but incredibly professional,

Cisco Systems

Technology in optical networking space is moving incredibly quickly,

August Wilson

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

Lee Stephens

There's a legacy to uphold. Once you get to state, you want to keep going back.

Diane Watson

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

Don Martin

This is a paint-by-numbers legacy for Ralph Klein. He doesn't want big monuments or parks named after him.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Maya Angelou

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Al Davis

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

Bret Easton Ellis

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Matt Mullenweg

A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.

Richard Moyroud

They have been on the planet for millions of years. Why doesn't it have the right to continue?

Morgan Downey

This is very positive for millions of Americans.

Beau Greely

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.

E. P. Thompson

They're huge. The big ones sell millions of units annually.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.

Ralph Nader

A 'no' vote will potentially save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mike Cox

Texas has never seen anything like this. Literally, millions of people are trying to get out. The roadways are all clogged up at unprecedented levels.

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Charles Ives

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Bob Black

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Bill Laswell

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Herbie Hancock

You don't know what that's going to sound like; you just do it because the urge is there.

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Carl Jung

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Calvin Trillin

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Calvin Trillin

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Richard Jackson

Troubled spirits often are manipulated by other types of spirits.

Alan Noble

Their spirits go up and down with the wind speeds, and right now the wind is up.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Pat Summitt

A lot of this tournament is about where you play and not who you play.

Inaki Saez

You don't give anything away in a tournament like this,

Michael Collins

This is the one tournament where I tell folks, this is not a sport.

Brittany Wilkins

At least we got our tournament jitters out.

Ruben Blades

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

Jim Taylor

It was an outstanding tournament and Clarkston is really tough,

Ronnie Brewer

The SEC Tournament is important for our fans.

John Fusco

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.