Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Chamberlain

Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don't pretend that we're suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.

Mary Roach

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Mother Jones

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Mother Teresa

Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

Mother Teresa

When you don't have anything, then you have everything.

Mother Teresa

I see God in every human being

Molly Ringwald

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Minka Kelly

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

John Steinbeck

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

John Steinbeck

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

John Searle

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.

John Scalzi

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

Martin Luther

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

Peter DeFazio

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

All of these things are heading toward what I call Internet TV.

All of the help line numbers that they gave us to call have been totally unavailable.

All the calls that we've been able to track have come only from New York state, Providence and Boston,

All the demographics are in these (lists). You just get hold of a list of the numbers you want . . . and from there, you can go to all kinds of vendors that call those lists for you.

Elizabeth Dole

... All the people in this refugee camp want is to go back to their homes, and that can only happen when it's safe, ... Anything short of that is not going to be something that I would call success.

All rumors of Vineland's demise have been grossly exaggerated. This is a wakeup call for us. You can say what you want about their times, the fact they don't have the depth they used to, the talk about their streak ending, but as you can see, they stand and deliver.

Anthony Andrews

And he walked up to me and he said, 'I just shot and killed two people, and you need to call 911,' and I just thought, OK, whatever.

And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven

And if somebody sees something, we're going to call the cops. I do it all the time.

Edan Lepucki

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.

The master plan concept developed for the City of Kansas City, Mo., calls for the construction of a large, municipally owned telecommunications network in conjunction with current underground utility construction in the Kansas City Live Entertainment District, helping to minimize disruption to the area.

The market was probably expecting Lula to make a stronger statement, not just a simple apology. This speech will hardly calm down the opposition.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Lewis B. Smedes

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

The market has calmed down slightly after its little rally at the start of the month and is now awaiting new U.S. producer price index (figures) due to be released tomorrow.