Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Otto von Bismarck

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

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.'

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.

Emily Ratajkowski

The movie industry has been contacting me. I have been auditioning - that's actually why I am in California. I was here meeting with studios and auditioning.

Jimmy Fallon

The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California.

Joel Silver

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

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.

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

Joan Rivers

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

Garrison Keillor

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

Frank Lloyd Wright

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

Jimmy Carter

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Alex Rodriguez

The last two times I've been up here my two favorite players of all-time have introduced me, Mr. Keith Hernandez and Mr. Cal Ripken. To the New York fans, thank you very much for making me feel very welcome.

James Patterson

Fang: "There is one bright side to this." Max: "Yeah? What's that?" The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us? Fang: *grins* You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much. Max: My shriek of appalled rage would probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii.

James Patterson

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

The Detroit thing is such an aberration. It's easy to say they have no starting All-Stars, but they have four All-Star caliber players. Those remaining seven guys that are voted in by the coaches -- I think that means more, quite honestly.

Larry Thompson

The conspiracy...allowed Enron to exploit and intensify the California energy crisis and prey on energy consumers at their most vulnerable moment,

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

The market is filled with uncertainty. Calm will not return until U.S. markets open and we can reevaluate the U.S. government's response to the attacks.

The market is calm despite expectations the government may increase the money market 'short' because inflation figures were high and overnight money market rates are low.

Haruki Murakami

This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.

Gray Davis

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.