Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The deep ball, he grabbed my hip, that's how I fell. I was running side by side, he kind of pushed my hip. He was trying to get a pass-interference call, but they didn't call it, so it was good coverage.

Jean Piaget

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.

James Whitcomb Riley

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Adam Levine

I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am. But I live in California, where it's always warm, so why not?

To make multiple phone calls is not only a burden, it is financially stressful.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

Three calls were received in the space of three minutes.

John Harington

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason

John Harington

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason

Travis is the fastest rising player in California maybe.

Yeah, I was fouled (as I was about to shoot). I got the fake down and I knew I was about to shoot but they didn't call it.

You know what Southern Illinois is going to try to do to you. You just don't know what the referees are going to call on a consistent basis.

Theresa May

You know what some people call us: the nasty party.

Bob Graham

You know what my grandchildren call me? 'Doodle,' ... And when I'm really good, they call me 'Super Doodle.'

Lisa Edelstein

You know what, I've always been a smarty-pants, and the only thing that goes wrong now is that people know that I play a doctor on TV and so they quickly call me out on the fact that I really think I am a doctor.

You know there are powerful interests here -- we call them K Street lobbyists -- that are very prone to defending this sort of things, ... There's big fees for defending them on the Hill.

Bill Clinton

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. I mean, you can't make as many calls as you have to make without messing up once in awhile. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now.

When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK, but the visual of the crowd walking away in the mud and the way they cut it together was kind of depressing,

We needed that wakeup call to get us back into it. We came out and played pretty good at Hamilton (in the regional championship). This game just topped it off.

We've been hearing that Morgan Stanley's call was a reason for some investors to sell.

We've been getting more than a thousand complaint calls a day for the last week. We can't do much to help out. It's not our program.

We've been getting calls from all over the country supporting us.

We've been getting calls every day for more than a week from people who've seen this mysterious wild turkey walking in the roadway with an injured leg.

We've been getting calls and hits on our Web site as well.

We've been flooded by phone calls from people who are saying they've decided not to vote in the primary and they want to know when they can sign the petition to get her on the ballot.

Rusty Wallace

We've been finishing good -- a lot of top-10 finishes. We've made some smart calls to stay out when we need to stay out.