Famous Quotes & Sayings

Britt Robertson

On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.

Barack Obama

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

What we're doing is focusing on trying to resolve the issues, trying to resolve what we call freedom of travel disputes that involve U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia. And we're going to keep up that effort.

What we now call modern photography was influenced by commercial photography. But not all (modern artists) were commercial photographers, and not many (commercial photographers) are recognized as fine artists.

John Randolph

What we need is people to call us and provide us with as much information as possible, ... We need the community to be our eyes and ears.

There is a presence here, but it's not what people think it is. It's not like it is in Dallas -- not saying as to how tough they are. If eight kids get together and call themselves whatever type gang, that's a presence; no matter how you want to describe it, it's a presence.

Derek Sivers

There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security.

Kofi Annan

There are no excuses, ... If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity.

There are no excuses for a performance like that. I think they just thought it was going to get done and somebody else was going to do it. Unfortunately, the person who did it was the entire Cal team. Nobody from Oregon stepped up today.

There are mistakes made with penalties, and those are very big plays sometimes. We just feel it gives the clubs another option, since we're spending tens of millions of dollars on replay already, to make sure we have the right call on the field.

The OPEC suggestion that they would not cut production targets has had a calming effect on the market.

Gigi Hadid

I'm always tan and blonde and don't really fit into New York. I'm a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather.

George Crook

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

Philipp Meyer

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

After (Hurricane Katrina), we want the local community (to know they) can call on us.

Kenny Smith

The most improved player in the whole Valley. No doubt about it. It was all guts. He's not a kid that you sit down and watch lots of film with because he is what I would call not the most cerebral player, but he's the toughest player.

Paul Wilson

The most important skill in staying calm is not to lose sleep over small issues. The second most important skill is to be able to view all issues as small issues.

Rhea Perlman

The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

Actually, there's not as much outsourcing as many companies would realistically hope. A lot of nightmarish scenarios have emerged from outsourcing, with some companies opting to move their call centers back in-house, due to customer complaints.

Jason Newsted

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.

Shawn Marion

A couple of them were fouls. The referees called the game to their momentum. They had the momentum, so they gave them the calls they liked. But more power to him.

A critical downside of the investment environment is corruption -- what we used to call out of concern for diplomatic niceties 'transparency'.

subscription-based services do not call into play the issue of indecency.

(Street) has been tremendous. He looks so calm out there. He must have nerves of steel. I guess that's why we're confident he's going to get the job done every time.

Some teachers still call us. A lot of teachers call and write and send cards.

Ella Wilcox

Some souls there are that needs must tasteOf wrong, ere choosing right;We should not call those years a wasteWhich led us to the light.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Some time ago, nature changed the world as I knew it. It left no apologies, no remorse... waves and winds leaving me with nothing to call my own. Or so I thought. Now five years later, I look back and see all what it has given me. Courage, resilience, empowerment... the list goes on and on. Things that no one can ever take away from me. And for that, I am eternally grateful.

Larry Mullen

Something happened to him inside that California prison.

Ricardo Lagos

Something happened here that rarely happened in other meetings: the call to speak out loud was taken up by everyone, ... At times, we all talked out loud, perhaps too loud, but it made the meeting that much more interesting.

Kenneth Kaunda

Some people draw a comforting distinction between ''force'' and ''violence.'' I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Somebody took a calculated effort into not just pushing something down (but) getting a saw and cutting it down.