Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rosamund Pike

I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call me up, say: 'Are you free tonight and d'you wanna go to the roller-disco? Or play pool?'

Martha Beck

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

Marlee Matlin

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

Michael Arrington

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

Marcus Samuelsson

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

Patti Stanger

It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

Padgett Powell

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

Padgett Powell

I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

We hadn't planned to come to New Orleans but when the call went out, we responded in force.

We have three medalists out of what essentially people would call our JV team. They didn't run like that today.

Devin Aromashodu

We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free.

Michelle Ryan

We were getting five, six phone calls an hour going, 'Oh my God, you're closing?'

We were frustrated with a few of the calls that were made. But we understand that when you go on the road that's part of the game.

We were shocked, you know, but we knew that someday it could happen. Now they're calling people all over.

Typically, every game has a life span, and you have what we call game fatigue. We thought it was a good time for a new game that looks and plays differently.

Typically an immigrant comes, takes whatever job he can find, and saves every penny with the goal to be able to open a business. And all the Southeast is what I call virgin territory.

Tyler hit a big shot. He was the second option, but that wasn't the shot (designed). I'm just glad it ended up in his hands. He was calm enough to put up a good shot.

To make multiple phone calls is not only a burden, it is financially stressful.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

We have a line all the way around it, but we're still calling it 30 percent contained through the night. The reason for that is because when the winds come in tomorrow we want to make sure those lines will hold.

We have a lack of taking care of the basketball. We need to have a guard step up and calm things down. We need to have someone emerge and take the responsibility away from our scorers.

Kirk Talley

We have a higher power that we call upon.

We have a good relationship. I mean, he's my dad's boss. If I ever needed anything, I would definitely call him.

We have a lot of people already calling us for information. They can call 1-800-GET-INFO, but quite frankly it is very difficult to get through. We've had probably 200 calls already.

We have a lot of interest. A lot of people we're talking to, the reason why they're calling is they like the idea of having people living right there.

You are going to have victims who are already scared as it is, who are not going to call the police at all (for fear of being deported). You need a police who protects all victims of crime.

We've gotten away from preparing foods at home. We are eating foods that are much higher in fat and calories and larger portion sizes. We've gotten away from physical activity.

We've got some really good shooters on this team. I am thinking about letting them call the offense as long as they share the ball, and I'll just concentrate on defense and rebounding.