Famous Quotes & Sayings

That drop in lung cancer is linked to the fact that cigarette consumption in California has dropped 50 percent, ... What we're seeing is the first disease reduction resulting from California's comprehensive tobacco prevention efforts.

James Carville

Maybe it comes back stronger. No one forgot how to play the saxophone or how to cook or write. Or have a good time. That's all still there. Calamities and disasters are part of New Orleans' history. This too shall pass.

Barry Lopez

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

That was the call that was made, so it must be the right call.

Mike Tice

That would be a perfect scenario, where he works with that offensive staff through the whole week and works with Steve to formulate how the game will be called. Maybe Steve calls the game in, with the help of Jerry. But anything that can lighten the load of what I've taken on will be certainly fun.

That was a hard call for us to make. I was disappointed, but what are you going to do?

That's a very difficult time, because you can't think. I mean, you know, you just don't process. And even in that meeting, I'm not too sure how much they heard me, but it was OK. Because I knew that, I knew they're not hearing it, or not right now. It'll come back maybe later, and they know they can call me.

I was really looking to being wanted . . . to have a place to call home and finish my career out,

I was proud of the way our girls handled themselves today. There was a lot of name calling and trash talking going on from their players, things like that, but our team played with a lot of class. Our girls kept their cool and showed a lot of poise and character. My team played with a lot of heart today.

I wasn't expecting to go to California. I got the call the day before the North-South game. I came home for Christmas and flew out (Dec. 26). Right after the game we flew back that night.

Charles Dickens

I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.

Mariano Puerta

I was having dinner in the players' restaurant when the call came.

I think probation would have been a more appropriate sentence. I don't think the facts of this case call out for a period of incarceration,

We're calling for some slight improvement in the weather by early next week. We're still looking for a return to light trade winds but still a wet trade winds pattern for next week.

Frank Beamer

We got back to what I call Virginia Tech football. I don't know where we've been here for a while, but personal fouls, penalties, sloppy play, that is not us. We didn't win all these games being like that.

Bill Self

I thought it was a physical game before the game started. I mean before the opening tip. I don't know that the intentional foul made it more physical. I think it made officials call more stuff after that.

Rex Grossman

I thought I was going to be a lot more nervous than I was, ... The first play of the game definitely helped. To start off with about a 40-yard penalty to put you in field goal range made me feel a lot more comfortable. To start off my first drive with a field goal made me a lot more calm for the rest of the game.

Just in one day, we've seen here in California about a 10 percent increase in demand for California products.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

You don't ever practice such a thing. The situation was pretty intense. There were a couple critical calls that were non-calls that were an important part of the game. We weren't used to that situation.

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

Michael Myers

We'd rather go forward, but we have to play within the defense, and if it calls for us to drop, we drop.

Jay Leno

As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Carly Fiorina

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Giuliano Amato

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

Charles Dickens

He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!

He called from Nashville right during David's party, ... They probably talked for a half-hour on the phone. He said he would record some of his concert, and we'll send it to my son in a care package. For this Marine to call David, it's something we will always remember.

Daniel Alfredsson

He played great and he looked really calm in there, not nervous at all,

H. G. Wells

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

Jeff Allen

I'd say I've received about 25 calls so far from people who've said they might have a use for it, but most of them want something smaller.

I don't want to call it only cosmetic, because these things do have an effect, but how profound the effect is, that I would question. Much of this is not about policy, it's about motion. It shows that they are responding; that they are moving.