Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Dennis Crowley

I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.

Naveen Jain

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

The ACC is a calling card. Kids in this geographic footprint want to play in the ACC, and I think what it does is it gives us a chance to recruit some of these kids.

We can't just keep calling it 'we'll be better with experience', we've got to start turning this around, I think we're getting closer but still not getting to the goal.

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.

Richard Dean Anderson

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Mark McKinnon

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

Elizabeth Smith

We have had people calling since the day we closed down.

Ariel Sharon

my calling and my primary mission for the coming years.

Who's calling the shots? Where is the state's input?

Pavel Kubina

You just have to be careful. It seems like some games they are calling everything and the next game they are not. We just have to be more careful about it, especially in a tie game, you can't take any stupid penalties.

Will you stop calling it the short stack?

Michael McDonald

I thought it was the least I could do after calling you Little Rock.

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.

Dolly Wells

We came up with this idea of a power struggle between two people who really love each other, and 'Doll & Em' took off. Calling it by our own names was the director's idea, but hopefully people will understand that we're playing versions of ourselves.

We are not putting pressure on others. We are calling for contributions.

Zach Galligan

You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.

I will stop just short of calling this harassment, ... I will leave that to my attorneys.

I was very pleased to hear that they were calling the township and coming down here. The quarry is an important project in the township.

We're calling on the visiting Japanese ministers to pressure their government into stopping whaling in the Southern Ocean.

We're calling on Representative Nussle to take the target off of Iowa's seniors, children, people with disabilities and low-income families.

We're calling on Congress to pass a comprehensive reform that makes our country more secure and raises standards for all working people in this country.

We're calling it the weekend to remember. Or to forget.

We're calling it the Corbett Trail One Fire.

We're calling it an aftershock, a big aftershock.

We're calling for temperatures, probably approaching zero, if not colder than that for overnight lows. It's the winter we've been waiting for at least some of us.