Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Moir

We learned something about being in the lead. We couldn't hold back with the caliber of skaters nipping out our heels, so we really had to go for it.

Subcomandante Marcos

We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.

We have contacts in major cities with mortgage brokers. If we have leads that come in through our Web site, right now we just call the brokers. We're smack dab in the middle of creating a lead generation engine.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

Emmy Rossum

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

Ellen Goodman

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

Blake Jenner

In junior high, I was picked on for being the small skinny kid who enjoyed being in drama. All the drama kids, we were looked at like we were aliens, and people would call us names and say, you know, 'It's stupid to be in drama.' They would say a lot worse things, to be honest.

I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what they call 'the stroke of genius.'

Bill Buford

Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

Bill Engvall

I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.

Billy Collins

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.

Cormac McCarthy

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Colin Farrell

I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.

Dan Rather

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

Conan O'Brien

California has gone insane. According to the latest poll, Arnold Schwarzenegger is leading in California's governor's race by 34 points. You can tell that Governor Gray Davis is worried because he spent all day yesterday working on his pecs.

Conan O'Brien

California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is exposed to it is still in line at Space Mountain.

Dwight Henry

I love California. I love Hollywood.

We used to get a response in two or three calls. Now we can call 10 CEOs and not get a response.

We used to call them mini town halls. We're kind of getting away from that now, but it gives you an understanding of what services we offer there.

Sachin Tendulkar

We used to call him the 'Shadow Man' for this habit of his.

We understand you communicated with us by calling several different locations. Our inability to talk has been a concern for us as it's been for you.

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

We shouldn't grab, we should call police, maybe chase him, but you know yeah, we shouldn't grab him. The risks outweigh the rewards of getting the money back. If one of those guys would of gotten hurt last night, I couldn't have lived with it.

We shouldn't call winners or losers immediately after a debate. Those calls have been useless as a guide to what really matters. . . . What matters is what the press focuses on.

Jessica Mitford

Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a movie about a small-town folk hero. People come up to shake his hand, students run after him with urgent questions, old folks stop their cars to call out, 'Good luck Bill!' and 'Howdy, Reverend.

Steve Martin

I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.

Joel Salatin

We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'

Bjorn Lomborg

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read.

Alan Grayson

If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.

Amity Shlaes

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

Andrew McCarthy

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.