Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Wing Goodale

When it was first installed, you could hear the calling of long-tailed ducks in the background.

Thomas Edward Brown

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

Roberto Benigni

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

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.

Genderen Stort

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

Andrew Spence

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.

Sherwood Schwartz

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

Javier Bardem

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

Jeff Lemire

When I do 'Sweet Tooth,' really, whatever I want to do with the characters kind of goes. I'm sort of in charge.

Tom Hardy

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.

A. S. Byatt

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

Thayer David

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

Thomas Steinbeck

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.

Trudi Canavan

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

Terry Zwigoff

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.

Uzo Aduba

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Eric Nylund

'Ghosts of Onyx' is the end of one chapter in the 'Halo' saga - and hopefully the start of an entirely new one!

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Mark Geragos

We might as well open it up entirely and pollute the entire state.

Linus Torvalds

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

Robert Shaler

Possibly, too, many were entirely cremated and will never be identified.

Daniel Benjamin

The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act.

Gary Shteyngart

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Heikki Kovalainen

I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Ronnie Milsap

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Irwin Winkler

When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

Brian Barker

When James was out, we put a lot of time into bolstering his weaknesses.

Bill Hader

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Jim Hopson

We did find ourselves in a position of having to go back and manage our customers' expectations.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

H. Hunt

Most people have enough money. It's that they don't know how to manage what they have.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Margot Robbie

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

John Cheever

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.

Mahmud Abbas

I'm never going to predict precisely when this is going to come to a conclusion. But I do think they have made a lot of progress.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Dita Von Teese

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Andrew Yaracs

We've become very well-known and through our exposure, we receive a lot of yearly invitations.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Matt Hasselbeck

Miscommunication. Usually, that is a wide receiver running that. I was thinking one thing and Jerramy was thinking another.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Rock Hudnall

Perquimans is a more solid team than we are. They serve and receive outstanding and do it better than we do.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Camille Claudel

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Benjamin Franklin

What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.

Daniel Cabrera

We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

John Godfrey

Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.

Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.