Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Williams

We're up a little bit, but I would not call it a real large increase.

Usually, when there have been calls for boycotts of American brands, there were no substitutes that people could opt for instead. Mecca Cola represents that alternative,

Usually on tour, each night, we'll call a random song and we'll end up playing it in a way we hadn't thought of before, songs that we had not thought of touching or had sworn off, because they have a connotation of oldness. We're like all right, whatever, we'll just do it, and it'll sound fresh and new. It's a sign of three dudes who like to play together.

Wait 24 hours to calm down. Then, read your message over again. If you still feel the same way, send it.

Thomas Fuller

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

Larry Wall

We're still trying to get a handle on this thing, but it is too soon to put firm numbers on the damage. This is one of the worst calamities we've been through and it is one of the worst I've seen as far as hurricane damage.

With the U.S. economy hot and global growth accelerating, the issue of Fed tightening has become the conceptual equivalent of pondering a possible California earthquake. It's going to happen, but probably not tomorrow, and participants would rather not think about it.

Chuck D.

We've discussed it and we've gotten some phone calls and e-mails from residents supporting it.

We're talking about 22 legislators who are having a four-course meal while more than 400 others are dining on table scraps. This should be a wake-up call to legislators in the Northeast, Florida and the Southwest.

Penn Badgley

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

Megan Fox

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Peggy Lipton

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

Pierre Omidyar

I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks.

Patrice Motsepe

My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

Mark McKinnon

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

Misty May-Treanor

It's just as important to work on the little muscle groups as well as the big muscle groups. People, when they train, go to gyms. I call them 'nightclub bodies' - ginormous up top, and legs are little sticks. You see a lot of people, and they forget you can't leave the little muscles behind.

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.

Gottfried Leibniz

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Caroline Leavitt

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.

John Flaherty

With every pitcher, if you call a pitch you know where he's going to miss if it's not right so you prepare for it. With Wake, I don't think you have that luxury. If he throws a knuckleball, you just don't know where it's going to go.

With counter protestors, that is where many of the issues arrive. They usually have the opposite side of extreme thinking and things like nasty name calling between groups can happen.

Without the crucial information provided by Mr. Holmes and without the phone call from Mr. Donahue, we could not have caught these suspects.

Jennifer Granholm

With outsourcing, with NAFTA-we call it SHAFTA in the state of Michigan-but truly we have struggled with the global economy.

Todd Solondz

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

With something educational and entertaining on offer for adults and kids alike, the Amgen Tour of California Lifestyle Festival presented by Health Net, is a cornerstone of the race. Each day, the festival gives us an opportunity to have a positive and lasting impact on the cities that have opened their roads to this race.

We need to decrease front-loading, increase diversity, recognize Iowa and New Hampshire laws and traditions and have a calendar that will let us elect a Democrat to the White House.

John Long

We have more and more people calling us day by day. There's a huge trend in pet-sitting.

George H. W. Bush

We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor as you like to be liked yourself.

Aishwarya Rai

Well, when people call me real. I love it. And it has a lot of meaning, ... It means a lot to me and it's touching. People would see that and acknowledge it.

When the great markets by the sea shut fast / All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: / When even lovers find their peace at last,/ And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.

When the employee told her to wait because she had to call the manager, the woman took off.

When we played at Texas A&M this year, we got called four times for balks, and the balk calls on our club are way up. Last weekend in California, we got called for balks. Umpires are cracking down on it.

When we think we've gathered up enough information, we'll call a special meeting to discuss these issues with you.