Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need to remove the fog of misinformation, hyperbole and emotions that have been the calling card of a vocal minority pushing the government to become more involved in television regulation.

Adam Beach

When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

Alan Furst

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

E. O. Wilson

We are so used to weddings that we're ready for everything. The show shouldn't be any different - except for all the extra phone calls we're getting.

Michael Robinson

To think that people actually wanted him to give up the game, to call it quits -- I'm at a loss for words. He's a great coach.

To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night, you gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided,

Johnny Carson

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Dada Vaswani

Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.

Johnny Cash

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

John Donne

Yet call not this long life; but think that I Am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?

There are schools from all over northern California there, so it's very prestigious meet. They have a minimum qualifying requirement for each event, so it's not like you can enter just anyone.

Utah Phillips

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Ellen Goodman

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Dwight Henry

I love California. I love Hollywood.

We understand the sensitivity of this case and urge everyone to remain calm and resist efforts to exploit the situation.

Adam Hamilton

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

Burning Spear

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

Ariel Pink

I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.

This will help cover phone calls and mileage to check out issues with citizens.

This will be the first time since calendar year 1995 that we have had simultaneous launches of these two flagship products and we will make a considerable marketing and sales investment for these launches and, to a lesser extent, for the launch of Exchange 12.

The party campaign manifesto calls for a review of the ministerial structure.

Charles Wagner

The parallel people often use is the California gold rush. People got rich selling picks and shovels.

Joe Klein

This record speaks to not only the caliber of play on the field, but to the support of our fans over the years. Congratulations to the fans, the staffs and the players for making the league such a success.

This really puts California on a path to being a leader in dealing with the most important issue of our time.

This really isn't that complicated of a scheme. If we're not a good defense, it's not because of him. Ray Rhodes always puts a good product on the field. If we're not a good defense, it's because we as players aren't executing what he calls and we're not getting the job done out there.

Chris Grayling

This shows a lack of judgment that calls into question whether he should remain in the government.

This should be read as something of a wake-up call to health departments.

Tamar Jacoby

To call the system inadequate doesn't even come close to it,

To call an evacuation on Sunday morning when the storm was going to hit on Monday morning at 6 a.m. is just ... negligence, ... If he'd called it better than that he would have saved lives.

Tiger Woods

To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

Robert Hogan

The only thing I can't explain is why somebody who was in fear for their life would follow the person who threatened them and not flee, ... That's why I did not call the police soon. It caused me to lessen the significance of this incident.

The only thing I can say and I can implore to everyone in our community, is to look at the case, look at the facts when it comes to trial. And I will say, that I think the grand jury made the right call in this case,