Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Wilson

It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

Mother Jones

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Mother Teresa

Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

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.

Lisa Kleypas

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

Linus Torvalds

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Leslie Nielsen

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

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.

Mother Teresa

When you don't have anything, then you have everything.

Mother Teresa

I see God in every human being

Molly Ringwald

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Minka Kelly

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

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.

Gray Davis

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

John Lydon

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

John Leguizamo

I did Brad's first film The Take and I'm glad Brad [Furman] has not calmed down. I don't want him to ever calm down.

John Lancaster Spalding

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Joseph Glanvill

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

La Monte Young

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

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.'

Paul Kantner

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

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.

John Searle

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.

John Scalzi

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

Martin Luther

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

Paul Hawken

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Joseph Brodsky

When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.

Mike Huckabee

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.