Famous Quotes & Sayings

The first expedition on the space station requests permission to take the radio call sign Alpha,

The first phone call I got offering a safe haven was from Larry Hays, and that meant a lot. When you have somebody step up like this administration, and this coaching staff, who puts you in a position where kids feel like 'We're going to be OK,' and you can see it on their on faces. It means a lot and will continue to mean a lot in a way that will probably be tough to be able to explain to people to people who don't understand what we've gone through the last week and a half.

The first phone call every morning -- very early -- would be this guy named Roy. I thought this must be an ex-boyfriend. Who else calls at 6 in the morning? I didn't have friends who called at that hour unless they needed to be bailed out of jail.

The figures are so diametrically opposed and so far removed from each other, that the Opposition is calling for a thorough examination followed by a full explanation of the differences.

The figures are significantly better than expected and may call into question whether the MPC will raise interest rates at its July meeting. Clearly there are no inflationary pressures in the near term.

The first day he was here he started calling us mama and papa. The very first evening.

Michael Irvin

The first couple games were really, really tough, ... But I had a lot of people call me. Rebecca Lobo called, Nancy Lieberman, a lot of great stars talked to me and told me, your time will come. Just continue to work hard in practice, and when the opportunity comes, then youll show everybody you can play.

The first call I'm looking for the day after the game is what was our rating. It's enormously important and getting more so.

The first call came from the National Guard in King of Prussia. They said my son had been injured; that his wounds were not life threatening, and that four other guys had been killed.

The first one on the jaw we call 'Brutus' because he's the big mean guy, and then she has a sugar-cube size tumor on the lining of her lung.

The commoditization of IT labor by Fortune 500 companies will foster the growth of union activity, ... Price controls and margin controls are forcing providers of contract IT personnel to establish non-benefited classes of employees. IBM Global Services has created such a class it calls 'supplemental.' Supplemental employees get no benefits, no participation in 401-K programs, no profit sharing. They are not protected in any way.

Neal Stephenson

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

Louis Tomlinson

Woah! Calm down, Curly!

John Flanagan

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

John F. Kennedy

Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

Jonah Lehrer

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it's always invigorating,” [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. “It wakes us right up.

Jon Stewart

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

Rachel Caine

Who are you calling?" (claire) Pizza hut" (shane) Loser" (claire)

Pete Wilson

It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

Maria Shriver

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

Paul Kantner

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

Patrick Dempsey

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

Joe Eszterhas

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, Rob Reiner really deserves one.

Joan Didion

Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

Leslie Nielsen

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

Levon Helm

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

Joseph Glanvill

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

La Monte Young

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

Lisa Kleypas

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

Linus Torvalds

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.