Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

Patrick Ness

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

Marcus Samuelsson

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

Patti Stanger

It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

Padgett Powell

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

Padgett Powell

I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

We hadn't planned to come to New Orleans but when the call went out, we responded in force.

We have three medalists out of what essentially people would call our JV team. They didn't run like that today.

Devin Aromashodu

We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free.

Michelle Ryan

We were getting five, six phone calls an hour going, 'Oh my God, you're closing?'

We were frustrated with a few of the calls that were made. But we understand that when you go on the road that's part of the game.

We were shocked, you know, but we knew that someday it could happen. Now they're calling people all over.

Typically, every game has a life span, and you have what we call game fatigue. We thought it was a good time for a new game that looks and plays differently.

Typically an immigrant comes, takes whatever job he can find, and saves every penny with the goal to be able to open a business. And all the Southeast is what I call virgin territory.

Tyler hit a big shot. He was the second option, but that wasn't the shot (designed). I'm just glad it ended up in his hands. He was calm enough to put up a good shot.

Harold Wheeler

We do get a lot of different, strange phone calls from tour operators and travel agents, wanting to know: Is the drinking water safe, do you have E. coli? It's alarming, because it can spread so quickly, the false information.

We want to make clear that we don't have a problem with day-trading per se, but we want to make sure that people know what they're getting into. It's very risky, it's highly speculative, some people might call it gambling ... if you want to go into this, you have to go in with your eyes open and your pockets full.

We want to know what they think, we want to know how we can put it together to make everybody happy. We want them to read through the ordinance, and if they have any comments or concerns to call us.

We'll see if I can fire him up on Wednesday, how about that? Are you calling him a kinder, gentler Ritchie?

Jon Gruden

We'll see how he is at wake-up call on Sunday morning and we'll see how he is when he gets to the stadium. We'll see how he is and we'll let you know. I just can't come out and say he's not going to play. I can't come out and say he's going to play, and if he does play how many plays.

We didn't have people in the right position in the entire second half. I could only call so many timeouts to get us back.

We become one-dimensional. I call timeouts and I tell them what I want and it just doesn't happen. I don't know how to get it through to them that you have to do the exact same thing you were doing, regardless of the score.

We are moving from what I call the 'old Pfizer,' a company characterized by the medicines we launched so successfully in the 1990s, to the 'next generation' Pfizer, characterized by a new wave of important medicines now reaching patients.

We are meeting the Department of Environmental Quality's three requirements - quantity, quality and reliability. The exchange sets up a 2005 water right; the purchase is the insurance policy. In the unlikely event that there's a call on the river, it protects the homeowners.

Robert Webb

We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.

Rose George

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Ravi Shankar

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

Solon

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

The darn wind just played havoc with all the pitchers. Pitches were coming from everywhere and the umpires were having a hard time calling strikes.

The Danish government urges all leaders, political and religious, in the countries concerned to call on their populations to remain calm and refrain from violence.