Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carly Fiorina

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Giuliano Amato

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

Charles Dickens

He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!

He called from Nashville right during David's party, ... They probably talked for a half-hour on the phone. He said he would record some of his concert, and we'll send it to my son in a care package. For this Marine to call David, it's something we will always remember.

Daniel Alfredsson

He played great and he looked really calm in there, not nervous at all,

Phil Garner

He pitched well, of course, the year before. And last year I saw some major improvement in him. I thought he calmed down. I thought he came into the game with a real good game plan. I thought he executed his game plans. To me, he matured a lot last year. He seemed more confident on the mound. He pitched in some big situations and he got some outs in some big situations.

H. G. Wells

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

Jeff Allen

I'd say I've received about 25 calls so far from people who've said they might have a use for it, but most of them want something smaller.

I don't want to call it only cosmetic, because these things do have an effect, but how profound the effect is, that I would question. Much of this is not about policy, it's about motion. It shows that they are responding; that they are moving.

How many calves or lambs it would take to feed a family of lions for a month? ... We sort of know what it takes for wolves, but something tells me we would be in a whole new ballgame.

I can certainly tell you there were a great deal of calls after those two cases were announced. After this one you are my first call.

Jason Wu

I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.

I call some of my friends in Chicago and I tell them, 'This guy's special,' ... I've never played with a receiver who's so passionate in practice. And we all know what he does on game day.

William Butler Yeats

I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,To judge what I have done.Have I, that put it into words,Spoilt what old loins have sent?

DeAngelo Williams

I call my offensive line my pit crew. And the fans are my fuel. Without them, there is no Heisman hype.

I call it 'the shame bill.' Shame on you.

I call him a playmaker. He's not slow - he's got speed and a great arm. ... He's a system man, and they have a great system over there. He's been in it since high school, and he's comfortable in the system.

Our guys aren't perfect. They strive for excellence and calls do get missed. But I guess the difference is that some of those calls are missed because we're human beings, and previously they were missed because we picked and chose.

Don Zimmer

Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.

Our people are on conference calls right now, working through a lot of the issues like where should we be sending our people, where are the majority of claims coming in at the moment, what is the primary damage.

Our storm (today) and Wednesday will be down in Southern California on Friday.

Our fund-raiser tells us that it can take three, four or five meetings before you get companies to commit (to a project like this), which could take four to eight months. But he was really encouraged by their response. He had people calling him the day after the show." ()

Our trip to California this past weekend gave us the opportunity to test ourselves. The results were not what we hoped for, but now we have a gauge of our speed and an idea of what we can improve upon before the Childs Cup.

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Bruce Coville

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.

David Kay

The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.

Christina Baker Kline

I have three sons, as different from each other as any three humans could be but connected by their shared love of Guitar Hero. I'm lucky to be married to a man I can call my soulmate without any irony whatsoever.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Victoria Osteen

The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what's in your heart. He already knows the decisions you've made. He's just waiting for you to call on Him and be honest with Him like Jonah was.

Walter Kirn

Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

Naveen Jain

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.