Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jaret Wright

We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there.

We're standing in unity with the national movement. But we're not actually calling for everyone to miss work or not go to school.

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point

We're still calling the same plays that we called last season, but we're trying to mix it up a little bit. We played a little man, a little zone coverage, to try to keep them off-balance. We were able to confuse them a little bit.

We're still calling on consumers to be prudent in their use of gasoline. It's just a complicated jigsaw puzzle we're putting back together.

We're looking for a guy to play in the third pair. Be safe. Be solid. And that's really Cory's calling card.

Kelly Brown

We've got more (volunteers ) in the pipeline. We are aggressively calling (the national chapter) to tell them we have people (ready) to go.

Billy Ray Cyrus

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

(The referees) have been calling (penalties) and sticking to them. They've been calling them when it's 5-on-4 and they've been calling it late in game and in overtime. It's made for a better game.

We found out about the grant really late. For three weeks, I spent every spare minute of my time calling people. Everybody came on board.

Usually, by the end of October all the chestnut growers start calling each other looking for chestnuts because we're all sold out.

Sergio Garcia

We're getting a lot of local citizens from Jacksonville calling in to get reservations.

We're better off now than we were this time yesterday but as long as the winds are playing havoc we aren't even calling it contained.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

We're real excited to have the home court advantage, and that is something that will really be in our favor. We hope to have a really good crowd out there, calling the Hogs, getting it going, and seeing what this team can do.

Gregg Williams

We knew what the play was. We had guys calling out the play at the line.

Gabrielle Zevin

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

We are not calling for an inquiry at this point in time.

We are not calling for a blockade, but if oil companies decide they cannot send out lorries while there is a public presence at their site, then that is a matter for them.

John Key

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

The protocol is they should be calling us because they're the home team. Football is new to Indianapolis, so maybe they don't understand the protocols of the NFL as much as they understand basketball.

We have a signed contract. We're prohibited from picketing or calling a boycott.

We have a once-in-a- generation opportunity to do this. We're calling on today's students to make their contribution to the future of this university.

There are two things you don't want to get -- a letter from the IRS and a letter from the draft board. They're not calling up to say hello,

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

We really feel pretty strongly about that. Where we are with the standard, we just don't think it's right to be calling products pre-n or Draft 1.0 compliant.

We're a different entity coming in from the outside, and we have to put our resources where our moth is and show parents we can do a better job. Displaced parents were able to see what a better school system looks like, and they are now calling us and demanding that we provide the same, if not better. And we agree.

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Paul Anderson

We have quite a few styles that perform more than one function to fulfill small- or limited-space needs. Most of Ikea's furniture is designed around the European market, which is calling out for smaller-scale items.